Re: distributed performance testing

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-08-13T22:41:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Incidentally,  use of a different SCM system might well make 
>>constructing test sets more simple. Imagine, say, in SVN, you would 
>>create a branch called "test-set-yyyy-mm-dd" or some such, make your 
>>changes there, add a test script under some well known name, and commit 
>>the branch.
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>This seems a pretty unconvincing argument for SVN ... we could perfectly
>well do that in CVS, no?
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You could well be right.  And I should know better than to engage in 
speculation like that and possibly cause us to be inundated by 
proponents of SCMfoo, most of whom will never write a line of code for 
postgres let alone ever have to commit anything ;-) Pardon my weakness.

cheers

andrew