Re: Simulating Clog Contention

Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-01-19T14:49:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 19 January 2012 14:36, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> No doubt this is handy for testing this particular area, but overall I feel
> this is too much of a one-trick pony to include in pgbench.

I don't think that being conservative in accepting pgbench options is
the right way to go. It's already so easy for a non-expert to shoot
themselves in the foot that we don't do ourselves any favours by
carefully weighing the merits of an expert-orientated feature.

Have you ever read the man page for rsync? It's massive, with a huge
number of options, and rsync is supposed to be a tool that's widely
used by sysadmins, not a specialist database benchmarking tool.

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