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authorunknown <monty@hundin.mysql.fi>2001-06-04 04:08:30 +0300
committerunknown <monty@hundin.mysql.fi>2001-06-04 04:08:30 +0300
commit83c9bb3b7309313b8342831d7fd7509233b86566 (patch)
tree94f20949773315629d9cbfdd6413a571baaadf5f /sql-bench/Comments
parent5ec76be436655eefc2a6403b21606fad914ac814 (diff)
downloadmariadb-git-83c9bb3b7309313b8342831d7fd7509233b86566.tar.gz
Fixed portability problem.
sql-bench/Comments/postgres.benchmark: Added warning about PostgreSQL 7.1.1
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sql-bench/Comments/postgres.benchmark b/sql-bench/Comments/postgres.benchmark
index 775c211bf25..cce9a8f05fe 100644
--- a/sql-bench/Comments/postgres.benchmark
+++ b/sql-bench/Comments/postgres.benchmark
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
-# This file describes how to run MySQL benchmarks with Postgres
-#
+# This file describes how to run MySQL benchmarks with PostgreSQL
+#
+# WARNING:
+#
+# Don't run the --fast test on a PostgreSQL 7.1.1 database on
+# which you have any critical data; During one of our test runs
+# PostgreSQL got a corrupted database and all data was destroyed!
+# (When we tried to restart postmaster, It died with a
+# 'no such file or directory' error and never recovered from that!
+#
+# WARNING
# The test was run on a Intel Xeon 2x 550 Mzh machine with 1G memory,
# 9G hard disk. The OS is Suse 6.4, with Linux 2.2.14 compiled with SMP
@@ -8,8 +17,6 @@
# on the same machine. No other cpu intensive process was used during
# the benchmark.
-#
-#
# First, install postgresql-7.1.1.tar.gz
# Adding the following lines to your ~/.bash_profile or
@@ -27,7 +34,10 @@ MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/pg/man
#
/usr/local/pg/lib
-and run ldconfig.
+
+# and run:
+
+ldconfig
# untar the postgres source distribution, cd to postgresql-*
# and run the following commands: