building a performance test suite - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Kevin Kempter
Subject building a performance test suite
Date
Msg-id 200710101621.41749.kevin@kevinkempterllc.com
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Responses Re: building a performance test suite  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
Re: building a performance test suite  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Hi List;

I'm preparing to create a test suite of very complex queries that can be
profiled in terms of load and performance. The ultimate goal is to define a
load/performance profile during a run of the old application code base and
then again with changes to the application code base.

I suspect I should look at grabbing these things for load:
# of queries running
# of IDLE  connections

and these things for performance
how long the queries run
difference between the runs for # of queries running

What do you'all think? are these valid metrics? should I be looking at others
like pg_statio or pg_stat_all_tables ? If so, what should I look for in these
(or other) tables?

Thanks in advance...

/Kevin

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