On 2 March 2018 at 02:37, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2018-03-01 14:09:02 +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote: > >>> A bit concerned that we're turning pgbench into a kitchen sink. > > >> I do not understand "kitchen sink" expression in this context, and your > >> general concerns about pgbench in various comments in your message. > > > We're adding a lot of stuff to pgbench that only a few people > > use. There's a lot of duplication with similar parts of code in other > > parts of the codebase. pgbench in my opinion is a tool to facilitate > > postgres development, not a goal in itself. > > FWIW, I share Andres' concern that pgbench is being extended far past > what anyone has shown a need for. If we had infinite resources this > wouldn't be a big problem, but it's eating into limited committer hours > and I'm not really convinced that we're getting adequate return.
I have similar worries about us growing an ad-hoc scripting language in psql. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
