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Re: pgbench - implement strict TPC-B benchmark

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>

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From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-01T06:57:13Z
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> According to TPC themselves, "In contrast to TPC-A, TPC-B is not an
> OLTP benchmark. Rather, TPC-B can be looked at as a database stress
> test..." [1]. Sounds like classic pgbench to me.
>
> Not sure where that leaves this patch. What problem is it actually
> trying to solve?

That there is no builtin illustration of pgbench script features that 
allow more realistic benchmarking.

-- 
Fabien.

Commits

  1. Fix documentation for pgbench tpcb-like.