Comment by brendangregg
10 months ago
It's not ridiculous at all. Who are you?
You are backing away from your other positions, for example:
> I fail to understand the reasoning of it "being simple" or "microbenchmarkey". It's far from the truth I think.
Do you now agree that TPC-B is too simple and microbenchmarky? And if not, please tell me (as I'm working on the problem of industry benchmarking in general) what would it take to convince someone like you to stop elevating obsoleted benchmarks like TPC-B? Is there anything?
A major postgres contributor (Andres Freund) disagreed with you about pgbench but, yes, feel free to dismiss them just because you found some words on a web page.
I am just a minor PostgreSQL contributor and consultant of no import, but do you seriously think you are superior to PostgreSQL core devs and know more than them about PostgreSQL just because you are a Linux kernel dev? I really do not like your attitude here and your appeal to your own authority when you are not even an authority here.
Pgbench is used heavily both in the development of PostgreSQL and by people who tune PostgreSQL. So it is not obsolete. Maybe it is a bad benchmark and that the PostgreSQL community should stop using it but then you need a stronger argument than just some claim about obsoleteness from 1995. If a PostgreSQL core developer says in 2024 that it is still relevant I think that weighs a bit higher than a claim from 1995.
Yes, indeed, it is very ridiculous to pull out arguments such as "who are you". I mean, wtf?
Your replies demonstrate lack of technical depth in certain areas and which makes me personally doubt in your experiment results. And you know what, that is totally fine.
But your attitude? A total disbelief.
> Do you now agree that TPC-B is too simple and microbenchmarky?
No, why would I, you did not present any evidence that would support that claim of yours?
And contrary to you, and to your own embarrassment, I do not use personal attacks when I go out of technical depth.
> what would it take to convince someone like you to stop elevating obsoleted benchmarks like TPC-B? Is there anything?
You don't have to convince me anything. Remember that this is just a random internet page where people are exchanging their opinions.
Wish you a pleasant day.