Re: pgbench - implement strict TPC-B benchmark

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 3:00 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> TBH, I think we should reject this patch.  Nobody cares about TPC-B
> anymore, and they care even less about differences between one
> sort-of-TPC-B test and another sort-of-TPC-B test.  (As the lack
> of response on this thread shows.)  We don't need this kind of
> baggage in pgbench; it's got too many "features" already.

+1. TPC-B was officially made obsolete in 1995.

> I'm also highly dubious about labeling this script "standard TPC-B",
> when it resolves only some of the reasons why our traditional script
> is not really TPC-B.  That's treading on being false advertising.

IANAL, but it may not even be permissible to claim that we have
implemented "standard TPC-B".

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Peter Geoghegan