tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476449567742726187.post9046543652647632227..comments2023-12-18T12:25:52.296-08:00Comments on Database Soup: First Look at PostgreSQL RDS on AmazonJosh Berkushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09671139717468724246noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476449567742726187.post-6168290158078126072013-12-16T16:27:57.052-08:002013-12-16T16:27:57.052-08:00Huh? No, it doesn't -- pgbench can be run as ...Huh? No, it doesn't -- pgbench can be run as any user who can create tables. My limitation on this has just been getting around to it.Josh Berkushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09671139717468724246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476449567742726187.post-46669136449983200452013-12-16T15:15:07.541-08:002013-12-16T15:15:07.541-08:00I'm curious if you were ever able to benchmark...I'm curious if you were ever able to benchmark the RDS instance with pgbench. My understanding is pgbench requires a superuser role, which I don't think AWS permits, is there a way around this?Mike Pattersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16195541008375248471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476449567742726187.post-39402735420786467752013-11-25T09:38:48.737-08:002013-11-25T09:38:48.737-08:00As they told me in the Architecting class, they en...As they told me in the Architecting class, they engineer everything for "The 80% use case." In AWS's opinion, the xml type is desired by less than 80% of Postgres users.OfficeLinebackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853300752538154978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476449567742726187.post-43041074311250018592013-11-14T20:35:54.720-08:002013-11-14T20:35:54.720-08:00This is great news but I'm very disappointed t...This is great news but I'm very disappointed that they didn't build it with support for the xml type (--with-libxml). I suppose most people don't use that, but we use it in a couple of places so it will prevent us from using this service.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03092774594516473496noreply@blogger.com