Re: [HACKERS] pgbench / compatibility with old(er) releases

2013-08-18 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 18.8.2013 17:54, Tom Lane wrote: > > TBH this seems like way too much cruft to be added in support of what > are after all *unsupported* releases. And how far back do we stop, > anyway? > > I'd suggest you test all the branches with the newest pgbench > version that happens to work with the o

Re: [HACKERS] pgbench / compatibility with old(er) releases

2013-08-18 Thread Tom Lane
Tomas Vondra writes: > I do understand the versions up to 8.3 are unsupported (or soon will > be), but I think it's handy to be able to run current pgbench on those > versions. So I propose to: > (a) add --no-fillfactor that actually disables adding it to the > CREATE TABLE (now it adds d

[HACKERS] pgbench / compatibility with old(er) releases

2013-08-18 Thread Tomas Vondra
Hi, I'm running some tests comparing benchmarks on a range of versions, going back to 8.0 (mostly because of curiosity, but actually for practical reasons too). I've decided to use the pgbench from 9.3, mostly to make the results more comparable and because of features not available in older rele