Re: 2018-03 Commitfest Summary (Andres #1)

2018-03-29 16:07 GMT+02:00 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>:

> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:13:26PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > FWIW, I think that pgbench would become a lot more usable if someone
> > maintained a toolset for managing pgbench. Something similar to Greg
> > Smith's pgbench-tools project, but with additional features for
> > instrumenting the server. There would be a lot of value in integrating
> > it with third party tooling, such as perf and BCC, and in making it
> > easy for non-experts to run relevant, representative tests.
> >
> > Things like the rate limiting and alternative distributions were
> > sorely needed, but there are diminishing returns. It's pretty clear to
> > me that much of the remaining low hanging fruit is outside of pgbench
> > itself. None of the more recent pgbench enhancements seem to make it
> > easier to use.
>
> Has anyone considered moving pgbench out of our git tree and into a
> separate project where a separate team could maintain and improve it?
>

It shares code with psql.

Regards

Pavel

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