Re: Cleanup proposal: Is the "sql-bench" subtree still useful in binary packages?

[Sergei Golubchik]

Hi, MARK!

On Feb 10, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
> > It's true that the comparisons results are not very usable anymore,
> > but the sql-bench test is still a very good test to include:
> >
> > - It's tests totally different things than mysql-test-run
> > - It can be used to very fast test for regression in base code.  (We
> > plan to make this part of our build system to test for regression
> > and I suggest you do the same!)
> > - It's also very easy to use for end users as a base to do a fast
> > test of the speed of some specific feature and how different options
> > affects this.
> 
> I think sql-bench is underutilized. I will begin using it for my local
> builds as a performance regression test. It might also be useful to
> share results between developers. For dbas, it would be good to
> improve it to a point where it could do basic performance testing to
> compare different hardware and configurations.

On the other hand, there's a project on launchpad dedicated to
sql-bench, and perhaps, there's no compelling reason to have sql-bench
also in mysql/mariadb trees ?
 
Regards,
Sergei