Re: Testing of MVCC

From: Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Testing of MVCC
Date: 2005-08-09 20:00:52
Message-ID: OFFB894730.A22C0C96-ON05257058.006D3C5A-05257058.006DF178@ftw.us.ray.com
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Firebird has MVCC also (they call it multi-generational record architecture
--- MGRA), and may have at least a good test plan, though it may not cover
effects of rules, triggers, functions, and constraints. Those are the
killer test cases. I don't have time to look.

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

Rick

pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote on 08/09/2005 02:19:56 PM:

> > Matt Miller <mattm(at)epx(dot)com> writes:
> > > I want to write some regression tests that confirm the behavior of
> > > multiple connections simultaneously going at the same tables/rows.
Is
> > > there something like this already, e.g. in src/test/regress?
> >
> > No. You should consult the pghackers archives --- there have been
> > discussions in the past about creating a test harness that would
support
> > useful concurrent testing. No one's gotten around to it yet, but
surely
> > we need one.
> There's something *somewhat* related here:
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-
>
bin/viewcvs/gnumed/gnumed/gnumed/client/testing/concurrency-torture-test.py
>
> Karsten
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