====
A C# load testing program for PostgreSQL using the npgsql data provider.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Run parameters are specified in the *App.config* file and the sql transactions
+to run are read from a separate xml file specified in the *TransactionsFile*
+parameter.
+
+App.config parameters
+---------------------
+
+**ServerDescription** (text) - A description about the test run
+
+**PgConnectionString** (test) - The npgsql connection string
+
+**ConnectionRetry** (boolean) - boolean - Whether or not clients that
+ fail to connect should retry (true),
+ or give up (false)
+
+**ConnectionPerTransaction** (boolean) - boolean - Whether clients should
+ connect and disconnect for each
+ attempted transaction (true), or keep
+ their connection open (false)
+
+**LogFile** (text) - Path to file where verbose details
+ of the test run are logged
+
+**CsvLogFile** (text) - Path to file where statistical results
+ of test run are logged
+
+**LogLevel** (integer) - Verbosity level of log data logged into
+ the log file specified in the "LogFile"
+ parameter
+ (0 = minimal, 1 = standard, 2 = verbose)
+
+**VerboseScreen** (boolean) - Display verbose details of the test
+ to the screen rather than show a summary
+
+**Clients** (integer) - Quantity of clients to use for a single
+ test, set to 0 if doing multiple tests.
+
+**ClientsScale** (integer) - Set along with "ClientsMax" parameter
+ to run a set of tests with incrementing
+ clients
+ E.g. ClientsScale = 4 ClientsMax = 16
+ will run 4 tests with 4,8,12 and 16 clients
+
+**ClientsMax** (integer) - Maximum quantiy of clients to run the test
+ with as detailed above
+
+**Iterations** (integer) - Number of iterations for each client
+ to run
+
+**SleepTime** (integer) - Time for each client to sleep between
+ iterations (milliseconds)
+
+**TransactionsFile** (text) - Xml file containing the SQL for each
+ iteration of the client - this can contain
+ multiple transactions.
+
+The transactions xml file contains a set of transactions and sql statements to
+be executed against the database. There's nothing overly intelligent about this
+file, it is simply a <transactions> root node containing *\<transaction>* and *\<sql>*
+sub nodes, for which any can have a random attribute assigned to make them be
+either run or skipped on a random basis.
+
+The text *#client_id#* will also be replaced with the integer id of each client
+thread in the testing program; this can be usefull for identifying individual
+clients against queries.
+
+ <transactions>
+ <transaction random="true">
+ <sql>SELECT 'I am client #client_id#';</sql>
+ <sql>SELECT 2;</sql>
+ </transaction>
+ <transaction>
+ <sql random="true">SELECT 'something';</sql>
+ <sql>SELECT 20;</sql>
+ </transaction>
+ </transactions>
+
+
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