Re: FW: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released

[Tim Churches]

Calle Hedberg wrote:
Hi,
Cross-posting FYI.
For us, PostgreSQL is now a REAL alternative (Africa is 98% Windows, so a
Linux-only DBMS was not very relevant)
98% of desktop ssytems just about anywhere are still Windows, aren't 
they? It will take 5 years or more before that figure drops below 80%, I 
suspect.

- but we obviously want to do some
serious testing of performance/reliability.
Is anybody on this list planning to do the same in the near future? (Re Tim
C's comment about their stress-testing of PostgreSQL 7 on Linux and Windows
some time back - do you have a piece of text describing HOW you did that, by
the way?)
 

We used a Python programme which injected synthesised data into the 
database abstraction layer of NetEpi Case Manager. Now that PG 8.0 is 
reelased, we'll repeat the testing and include the database stress 
testing code in the next release of NetEpi Case Manager. Note that the 
tests are not complete tests of all database functionality, only tets of 
the aspects of PG used by NetEpi Case Manager - for example, we don't 
use triggers or database stored procedures, so we don't test them.

However, PostgreSQL comes with a comprehensive test suite, I think, in 
the full distribution. Might be worth adapting that to run it repeatedly 
on client several machines all using the one database simultaneously.

Tim C