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| -rw-r--r-- | sql-bench/Comments/postgres.benchmark | 20 |
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: |