On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You can use pgbench to either get interesting peak read results, or peak > write ones, but it's not real useful for things in between. The standard > test basically turns into a huge stack of writes to a single table, and the > select-only one is interesting to gauge either cached or uncached read speed > (depending on the scale). It's not very useful for getting a feel for how > something with a mixed read/write workload does though, which is unfortunate > because I think that scenario is much more common than what it does test. all true, but it's pretty easy to rig custom (-f) commands for virtually any test you want,. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance