> I suggest that each such benchmark script include code to check if
> the sample database is present and, if not, download it from its
> canonical site, massage it into shape and import it. Then there
> would be no need to limit the number and variety of large sample
> databases that a build may be tried against.
The contrib/mac directory does something similar wrt fetching data,
using wget to get a file of manufacturer mac addresses to populate the
database as necessary.
Although not everyone will use such a large test database, it certainly
cannot hurt to have someone pursue assembling this as a toolkit, and
running tests if they find that interesting and helpful. It may be hard
to predict if, when, and how we will find this useful until it exists ;)
- Thomas