Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Quite, but in the meantime, a good benchmark should stress the system >> enough to cause crashes, lockups or at least incorrect results if a >> bug is introduced in the shared memory or semaphore code, and will >> definitely reveal any slowdowns introduced by new code, so my question >> is: where can I find a good benchmark for PostgreSQL? Note that I >> don't care about comparing PostgreSQL to other RDBMSes; I just want to >> a) test PostgreSQL under high concurrent load and b) if possible, >> measure the performance impact of a patch.
> You can use contrib/pgbench as a rather simplistic test, or you could > try OSDB (http://osdb.sourceforge.net/) For something a little tougher, talk to Mark Wong about using OSDL's testbed. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend