Adapted autotest to to work with SQL directly instead of over HTTP SQL API

src/python/test/perftest.py

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+from nose.tools import assert_equal, assert_is_not_none
+from nose_parameterized import parameterized
+
+from util import query, commit
+
+from time import time
+
+USE_SCHEMA = True
+
+for q in (
+        'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS obs_censustest',
+        '''CREATE TABLE obs_censustest (cartodb_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+           the_geom GEOMETRY, name TEXT, measure NUMERIC, category TEXT)''',
+        '''INSERT INTO obs_censustest (the_geom, name)
+           SELECT * FROM {schema}OBS_GetBoundariesByGeometry(
+           st_makeenvelope(-74.05437469482422,40.66319159533881,
+                           -73.81885528564453,40.745696344339564, 4326),
+           'us.census.tiger.block_group_clipped') As m(the_geom, geoid)'''
+):
+    query(q.format(
+        schema='cdb_observatory.' if USE_SCHEMA else '',
+    ))
+    commit()
+
+
+ARGS = {
+    'OBS_GetMeasureByID': "name, 'us.census.acs.B01001002', '{}'",
+    'OBS_GetMeasure': "{}, 'us.census.acs.B01001002'",
+    'OBS_GetCategory': "{}, 'us.census.spielman_singleton_segments.X10'",
+}
+
+GEOMS = {
+    'point': 'ST_PointOnSurface(the_geom)',
+    'polygon_match': 'the_geom',
+    'polygon_buffered': 'ST_Buffer(the_geom::GEOGRAPHY, 1000)::GEOMETRY(GEOMETRY, 4326)',
+}
+
+
+@parameterized([
+    ('OBS_GetMeasureByID', 'us.census.tiger.block_group_clipped'),
+    ('OBS_GetMeasureByID', 'us.census.tiger.county'),
+    ('OBS_GetMeasure', GEOMS['point']),
+    ('OBS_GetMeasure', GEOMS['polygon_match']),
+    ('OBS_GetMeasure', GEOMS['polygon_buffered']),
+    ('OBS_GetCategory', GEOMS['point']),
+    ('OBS_GetCategory', GEOMS['polygon_match']),
+    ('OBS_GetCategory', GEOMS['polygon_buffered']),
+])
+def test_performance(api_method, arg):
+    print api_method, arg
+    col = 'measure' if 'measure' in api_method.lower() else 'category'
+    for rows in (1, 10, 50, 100):
+        q = 'UPDATE obs_censustest SET {col} = {schema}{api_method}({args}) WHERE cartodb_id < {n}'.format(
+            col=col,
+            schema='cdb_observatory.' if USE_SCHEMA else '',
+            api_method=api_method,
+            args=ARGS[api_method].format(arg),
+            n=rows+1)
+        start = time()
+        query(q)
+        end = time()
+        print rows, ': ', (rows / (end - start)), ' QPS'