> I think we could probably do without this ... if you want a non-default > test setup, why do you need to use "pgbench -i" to create it? > > It's not that there's anything greatly wrong with this particular idea, > it's just that pgbench has too many switches already, and omitting random > subsets of the initialization actions doesn't seem like it contributes > fundamental new benchmarking capability. > > I could get behind a proposal that generalized pgbench's "-i" behavior > in some meaningful way. I wonder whether it would be possible to convert > that behavior into a script. Some of what it does is just SQL commands > with injected parameters, which pgbench does already. There's also > data-loading actions, which could be converted to backslash commands > perhaps. Then desires like this could be addressed by invoking a > customized script instead of complicating pgbench's option set.
+1. Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers