Running a full, thorough pgbench evaluation of a server takes several days of system runtime. Starting with PostgreSQL 8.3, the pgbench-tools program, available from http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=pgbench-tools.git, allows for automating multiple runs of pgbench, including production of graphs showing the results. Earlier PostgreSQL versions did not save all of the needed information to allow for graphing results over time.
On a system that supports running the git version control software, you can retrieve the source code like this:
$ git clone git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgbench-tools.git $ cd pgbench-tools/
If you're on a database server that doesn't support running git, you may need to run the preceding mentioned command on a newer system that does, then use that system to create an archive; here are two examples that produce...