Install sqlbench with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage

Commands and aliases

• sqlbench

Project history

The repository was created in September 2020 and published an initial v1.0.0 release shortly afterward. A v1.1.0 release later that month added CI-built release binaries and baseline CSV comparison support.

Adoption history

sqlbench was distributed through GitHub releases, source installation with Go, Chocolatey for Windows, and Homebrew for macOS users. The README explicitly documents Homebrew installation, which made it a familiar one-command install for package-manager-oriented PostgreSQL users.

How it is used

Users pass one or more `.sql` files to sqlbench, optionally set a PostgreSQL connection URL with `-c`, and choose iteration, duration, output CSV, baseline CSV, silent, verbose, and measurement-mode flags. By default it measures with `EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF)`, while `-m client` measures client wall-clock time.

Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about sqlbench because it is a focused benchmarking executable that turns query comparisons into reproducible terminal output and CSV artifacts. It also captures the practical packaging taste of small Go tools: install from releases, Go source, Chocolatey, or Brew, then wire into local performance experiments.

Timeline

• 2020: GitHub repository created.
• 2020: v1.0.0 initial release published.
• 2020: v1.1.0 release published binaries and added CSV baseline comparison.
• 2021: Repository last pushed according to GitHub metadata while remaining available through package managers.

Related projects

• The README ties sqlbench to PostgreSQL, pgx connection handling, libpq-style PostgreSQL environment variables, and Homebrew and Chocolatey package channels.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/felixge/sqlbench
• https://api.github.com/repos/felixge/sqlbench/releases
• https://github.com/felixge/sqlbench#readme
• source_facts.package-manager