On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:13:26PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > FWIW, I think that pgbench would become a lot more usable if someone > maintained a toolset for managing pgbench. Something similar to Greg > Smith's pgbench-tools project, but with additional features for > instrumenting the server. There would be a lot of value in integrating > it with third party tooling, such as perf and BCC, and in making it > easy for non-experts to run relevant, representative tests. > > Things like the rate limiting and alternative distributions were > sorely needed, but there are diminishing returns. It's pretty clear to > me that much of the remaining low hanging fruit is outside of pgbench > itself. None of the more recent pgbench enhancements seem to make it > easier to use.
Has anyone considered moving pgbench out of our git tree and into a separate project where a separate team could maintain and improve it? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription +