Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:11:49 -0500
From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org>
Cc: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>,
	Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Google SoC--Idea Request
Message-ID: <20060418191149.GD49405@pervasive.com>
References: <36e682920604151205i75a08030x7c05a6f52fccf095@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060417205455.GP49405@pervasive.com> <44452F9C.8000401@osdl.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <44452F9C.8000401@osdl.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:27:40AM -0700, Mark Wong wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:05:20PM -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >>All ideas welcome!
> >
> >I know it's not directly PostgreSQL related, but I'd love to see the
> >dbt* code improved. Items on my wish-list:
> >
> >- make it easy to run the test framework and clients on a seperate
> >  machine from the database server
> >- keep results in a database
> >- provide a front-end to allow users to schedule tests in a queue
> >- add support for windows, at least for the database (theoretically
> >  possible to run that way now, but you have to do everything by hand)
> >
> >Another idea: afaik, spikesource is still offering a bounty for
> >improvements to OSS test suites, something that'd fit well with SoC.
> 
> I second this. :)  There are also the TPC-App (Java) fair-use 
> implementation that I've started and the TPC-E (next gen OLTP) that I 
> would like to start.

Maybe before starting on TPC-E it makes sense to try and get a common
framework for all the different tests built? AFAIK most of the
benchmarks all use a fairly standard client-server infrastructure, so we
should hopefully be able to share that between the different tests...
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      jnasby@pervasive.com
Pervasive Software      http://pervasive.com    work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf       cell: 512-569-9461