On 20 June 2012 19:57, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Yeah, this sounds like a good approach. A library of standard workload
> scripts seems very useful. I've been using custom scripts to benchmark WAL
> insertion scalability lately, that also seems like a kind of a thing to put
> in such a library. I don't know if we should ship the library of scripts in
> contrib, or just put them up on a web site, but something like that...
The situation would be made a lot better if we could just find a way
to generalise pgbench a little bit more. I'm thinking about a facility
for specifying new tables in scripts, with a moderate degree of
flexibility as to their definition, data, and the distribution of that
data.
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