On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> You can use pgbench to either get interesting peak read results, or peak
> write ones, but it's not real useful for things in between. The standard
> test basically turns into a huge stack of writes to a single table, and the
> select-only one is interesting to gauge either cached or uncached read speed
> (depending on the scale). It's not very useful for getting a feel for how
> something with a mixed read/write workload does though, which is unfortunate
> because I think that scenario is much more common than what it does test.
all true, but it's pretty easy to rig custom (-f) commands for
virtually any test you want,.
merlin