Greg Smith wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > I don't understand why it would be "overkill". Are you saying people > > would complain because you installed a 25 kB executable that they might > > not want to use? Just for fun I checked /usr/bin and noticed that I > > have a "pandoc" executable, weighing 17 MB, that I have never used and I > > have no idea what is it for. > > > > It's for converting between the various types of text-like markup, i.e. > reST, LaTex, Markdown, etc. > > Anyway, just because the rest of the world has no standards anymore > doesn't mean we shouldn't. The changes Bruce has made recently have > gotten this tool to where its output is starting to be readable and > reliable. The sort of people who want to run this will certainly be > fine with installing contrib to do it, because they may want to have > things like pgbench too. There's really not enough demand for this to > pollute the default server install footprint with any overhead from this > tool, either in bytes or increased tool name squatting. And the fact > that it's still a little rough around the edges nudges away from the > standard server package too. > > Install in contrib as pg_test_fsync and I think you'll achieve the > optimal subset of people who can be made happy here. Not having it > packaged at all before wasn't a big deal, because it was so hard to > collect good data from only developer-level people were doing it > anyway. Now that it is starting to be more useful in that role for less > experienced users, we need to make it easier for more people to run it, > to collect feedback toward further improving its quality.
OK, I am ready to move test_fsync to /contrib. Is pg_test_fsync the best name? pg_check_fsync? pg_fsync_performance? pg_verify_fsync? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers