-----Original Message----- From: Rod Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:33 PM To: Gonyou, Austin Cc: Thomas Swan; Nigel J. Andrews; Tom Lane; PostgreSQL Development Subject: RE: Two weeks to feature freeze
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 16:09, Gonyou, Austin wrote: > DOH!. Yes....You're right I totally forgot about that. My apologies. I > believe though, that there is a HP testing lab that is somewhat like OSDL, > in that they offer OSS free services and many platforms to run on. (used to > be compaq's developer testdrive sort of program) I believe it still exists. >>I've been on Compaq's testdrive boxes before -- very nice. But I'm not >>sure we want to use those for a testing platform. Agreed, but the point was, there is a developer side where developers can test their code for a longer period of time in a more lab-like environment, much the same way as OSDL schedules their testing, etc, but you can try stuff on Alpha and x86, run windows, solaris, Tru64, etc. >>More to the point, if OSDL benchmarks keep coming along we should have a >>variety of PostgreSQL benchmarks to choose from. Adding a regression >>test for performance would be a wise thing to do, but will require >>dedicated hardware for good numbers (especially if run nightly). Understood and I concurr, I just didn't think about the testing scope of OSDL. >>Thomas had a good start in mind. Hopefully we can extend it a little >>once it has been started. I agree, just trying to offer something I thought was more valuable than it may have been. :) >>-- >>Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
