Re: pgbench--new transaction type

On 20 June 2012 18:42, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I'm sure Jeff submitted this because of the need for a standard test,
>> rather than the wish to actually modify pgbench itself.
>>
>> Can I suggest that we include a list of standard scripts with pgbench
>> for this purpose? These can then be copied alongside the binary when
>> we do an install.
>
> I was thinking along similar lines myself.  At the least, I think we
> can't continue to add a short option for every new test type.
> Instead, maybe we could have --test-type=WHATEVER, and perhaps that
> then reads whatever.sql from some compiled-in directory.  That would
> allow us to sanely support a moderately large number of tests.

+1. As long as pgbench is considered to be the standard benchmarking
tool (and I think that it is a general problem that it is), we ought
to make an effort to give people more options.

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