Instructions:

To make this profiler work, you should compile PostgreSQL from source. I will give you the instructions to do this for the version 9.2 of PostgreSQL, on Ubuntu 12.04. You might have to change some steps for other versions of Linux, or for other versions of PostgreSQL.

Install all dependencies of Postgres

sudo apt-get build-dep postgresql

Install the dependencies of the scripts

sudo apt-get install graphviz libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev pgtune pgagent libpq5 libxslt1-dev

Download, build, and install a custom version of Postgres

wget http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.3.0/postgresql-9.3.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf postgresql-9.3.0.tar.gz
cd postgresql-9.3.0/
CFLAGS="-fno-omit-frame-pointer -rdynamic -O2" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-debug
make -j$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)
sudo make install

To install pgAdmin, download, build, and install from source

wget http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin3/release/v1.16.1/src/pgadmin3-1.16.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf pgadmin3-1.16.1.tar.gz
cd pgadmin3-1.16.1
./configure --prefix=/usr
make -j$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)
sudo make install

To install the 'perf' profiler and the dependencies

full_version=$(uname -r)
flavour_abi=${full_version#*-}
flavour=${flavour_abi#*-}
version=${full_version%-$flavour}
sudo apt-get install linux-tools-common linux-tools-${version}

For better Postgres performance, you should also consider increasing the default limits for allocating memory (this increases the limits to 2GB):

sudo sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=2147483648
sudo sysctl -w kernel.shmall=2097152

To make these changes permanent, execute the following:

cat <<__EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.shmmax=2147483648
kernel.shmall=2097152
__EOF

You are now ready to create and populate the TPC-H database and the tables:

./tpch_prepare

And after it finishes, run the queries and generate the call graphs:

./tpch_runall_seq

This will create a directory perfdata, and put all the evaluation results in there.

You may also use a custom directory for the performance results, by giving an argument to the tpch_runall_seq:

./tpch_runall_seq my-config

This will create a directory perfdata-my-config and put the results in it.