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

On 2 March 2018 at 02:37, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2018-03-01 14:09:02 +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> >>> A bit concerned that we're turning pgbench into a kitchen sink.
>
> >> I do not understand "kitchen sink" expression in this context, and your
> >> general concerns about pgbench in various comments in your message.
>
> > We're adding a lot of stuff to pgbench that only a few people
> > use. There's a lot of duplication with similar parts of code in other
> > parts of the codebase. pgbench in my opinion is a tool to facilitate
> > postgres development, not a goal in itself.
>
> FWIW, I share Andres' concern that pgbench is being extended far past
> what anyone has shown a need for. If we had infinite resources this
> wouldn't be a big problem, but it's eating into limited committer hours
> and I'm not really convinced that we're getting adequate return.

I have similar worries about us growing an ad-hoc scripting language in
psql.

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