Tom Lane wrote:
> If I thought that pgbench was representative of anything, or even
> capable of reliably producing repeatable numbers, then I might subscribe
> to results derived this way. But I have little or no confidence in
> pgbench. Certainly I don't see how you'd use it to produce
> recommendations for a range of application scenarios, when it's only
> one very narrow scenario itself.
So let's say you were designing a tool to help someone get reasonable
performance out of a PostgreSQL installation. What scenarios would
you include in such a tool, and what information would you want out of
it?
You don't have any real confidence in pgbench. Fair enough. What
*would* you have confidence in?
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Kevin Brown kevin@sysexperts.com
