Re: pgreplay log file replayer released

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> > One thing that Tsung, recording
> > queries as proxy, will never be able to handle are encrypted connections,
> > but I guess that's a minor problem.
>
> Yes, because you typically run the proxy only to record sessions, in
> order to prepare the tsung setup. Another way to go from logs is to use
> pgfouine, which knows how to prepare a tsung config from PostgreSQL
> logs:
>
>   http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/tsung.html

That's nice!

> > On the usability side, Tsung will require that all clients are redirected
> > to the recording proxy, while pgreplay will only require that the logging
> > configuration settings on the server are changed. This can be an advantage
> > in large distributed production environments.
>
> Well never use the tsung recorder in production. Ever. Run it to
> construct your sessions files from your application.

I see. So that case covers the creation of "artificial" session data as
opposed to the above case.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe