On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, bobbyw <bobbyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to chime in since I am having > problems with this as well. > > I too am trying to run dbt5 against Postgres. Specifically I am trying to > run it against Postgres 9.1beta3. > > After jumping through many hoops I ultimately was able to build dbt5 on my > debian environment, but when I attempt to run the benchmark with: > > dbt5-run-workload -a pgsql -c 5000 -t 5000 -d 60 -u 1 -i ~/dbt5-0.1.0/egen > -f 500 -w 300 -n dbt5 -p 5432 -o /tmp/results > > it runs to completion but all of the dbt5 log files contain errors like: > > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'pqxx::broken_connection' > what(): could not connect to server: No such file or directory > Is the server running locally and accepting > connections on Unix domain socket > "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > > I'm lead to believe that this is an error I would receive if the Postgres db > were not running, but it is. In fact, the way dbt5-run-workload works it > starts the database automatically. I have also confirmed it is running by > manually connecting while this benchmark is in progress (and after it has > already started the database and logged the above error). > > Any thoughts on why I might be getting this error? Hi there, Sorry I didn't catch this sooner. Can you try using the code from the git repository? I removed libpqxx and just used libpq a while ago to hopefully simplify the kit: git://osdldbt.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/osdldbt/dbt5 Regards, Mark -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance