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Installation

Software Requirements

dbworkload requires at least Python 3.8 and the pip utility, installed and upgraded.

dbworkload dependencies are installed automatically by the pip tool.

It has run successfully on Ubuntu 20.04+, MacOSX on both Intel and Apple silicon.

dbworkload installation

dbworkload comes already pre-packaged, available from PyPI.

Generally, you want to specify which of the supported drivers you want to install.

In below example, we install with the Psycopg3 driver, so we run

Stable

pip3 install dbworkload[postgres]==0.6.5

Latest

The latest version features:

  • Schedule
  • --max-rate
  • adding/removing connections at runtime
pip3 install dbworkload[postgres]

Confirm installation is successful by running

dbworkload --version