Re: Google SoC--Idea Request

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:27:40AM -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:05:20PM -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >>All ideas welcome!
> >
> >I know it's not directly PostgreSQL related, but I'd love to see the
> >dbt* code improved. Items on my wish-list:
> >
> >- make it easy to run the test framework and clients on a seperate
> > machine from the database server
> >- keep results in a database
> >- provide a front-end to allow users to schedule tests in a queue
> >- add support for windows, at least for the database (theoretically
> > possible to run that way now, but you have to do everything by hand)
> >
> >Another idea: afaik, spikesource is still offering a bounty for
> >improvements to OSS test suites, something that'd fit well with SoC.
>
> I second this. :) There are also the TPC-App (Java) fair-use
> implementation that I've started and the TPC-E (next gen OLTP) that I
> would like to start.

Maybe before starting on TPC-E it makes sense to try and get a common
framework for all the different tests built? AFAIK most of the
benchmarks all use a fairly standard client-server infrastructure, so we
should hopefully be able to share that between the different tests...
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