> As the maintainer of software that does multi-master, I'm a little
> confused as to why we would extend pg_bench to do this. The software
> in question should be doing the testing itself, ideally via
> it's test suite (i.e. "make test"). Having pg_bench do any of this
> would be at best a very poor subset of the tests the software
> should be performing. I suppose if the software *uses* pg_bench for
> its tests already, once could argue a limited test case - but it seems
> difficult to design some pg_bench options generic and powerful enough
> to handle other cases outside of the one software this change is aimed at.
Well, my point was in upthread:
> Right. If pgbench could have such a functionarlity, we could compare
> those projects by using pgbench. Currently those projects use
> different benchmarking tools. That means, the comparison is something
> like apple-to-orange. With enhanced pgbench we could do apple-to-apple
> comparison.
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