Re: [HACKERS] OSS database needed for testing

Absolutely. We could just use one large state or several small ones and let
folks download the whole thing if they wanted. Using that technique you
could control the size of the test quite closely and still make something
potentially quite valuable as a contribution beyond the bench.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Jeffrey D. Brower" <jeff(at)pointhere(dot)net>; <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] OSS database needed for testing

> Jeff,
>
> > Let me vote on the Tiger data. I used to use this database. It is
public,
> > updated by the government, VERY useful in own right, it works well with
the
> > earthdistance contribution, a real world database a lot of us use and I
> > think you can put together some killer scripts on it.
>
> We'd have to use a subset of it. 30G is a little larger than anything we
> want people to download as a test package.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco