Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The reason no work can be done in this area is because there are
> no standardized benchmarks of query execution in PostgreSQL being
> run regularly right now. Bringing up ideas for changing the
> computation is easy; proving that such a change is positive on
> enough workloads to be worth considering is the hard part. There
> is no useful discussion to be made on the hackers list that
> doesn't start with "here's the mix the benchmarks I intend to test
> this new model against".
This is looming as an ever-more-acute need for the project, in
several areas.
-Kevin