Re: [UNVERIFIED SENDER] Re: Continuous Performance Test

No problem!

If I find anything Ill let you know.

Thanks

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, 17:59 Nasby, Jim, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ooops, looks like I need to add email rules for this community list! You
> can ignore my AWS-specific comments in the last paragraph. 😊
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> *From: *"Nasby, Jim" <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 3:57 PM
> *To: *Jean Baro <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *[UNVERIFIED SENDER] Re: Continuous Performance Test
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> I’m not aware of such a tool, but it would certainly be useful.
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> Instead of trying to tie this directly to production changes (at which
> point it’s already too late), I encourage you to tie it into your
> QA/deployment process. If you have a reliable benchmark (a **great**
> accomplishment!) then you should run that as part of your pre-deployment
> process. Obviously that won’t reflect ad-hoc changes to your production
> environment, but frankly you don’t want ad-hoc in production except in an
> emergency (and even then it’s best to have a formal production change
> deployment process so you can track exactly what happened when).
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> It does occur to me that it would be handy to be able to flag CloudWatch,
> Performance Insights, and Enhanced Monitoring when a deployment is done.
> That would make it easier to see the actual impact of a deployment on
> production. Let me know if you’re interested in doing a PFR for that.
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> *From: *Jean Baro <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 11:19 AM
> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]
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> *Subject: *Continuous Performance Test
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> Hello!
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> I was wondering if there is any external tool or extention to PostgreSQL >
> 10 (EC2 or RDS) which would:
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>    - Collect the TOP X statements (queries or DML) used in the last Y
>    days IN PRODUCTION;
>    - Everytime there is a change in the DATABASE Structure (Migrations,
>    properties, Tables, Indexes) run these TOP X statements against a
>    PERFORMANCE TEST DATABASE (Which would be very similar to production, on
>    both HARDWARE and DATABASE SIZE)
>    - Collect the metrics for these tests
>    - Plot the results over time so that the PRODUCT team can be sure how
>    the performance of the DATABASE is being affected by the chances over time
>    (also as the number of rows changes). Something like this:
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> Query vs new change to the DATABASE (+ its size). So that we can see which
> migration affect the database the most.
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> Is there such a thing? It doesn't need to be open source nor free. But it
> would be good if it is :)
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> If the answer is "NO", would it be possible to create such a tool and make
> it available as OOS? I think so, but I would need some professional help
> (and would pay for this).
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> Thanks
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