Re: 7.2 is slow? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.2 is slow?
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Msg-id 18492.1008950401@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.2 is slow?  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> in order to measure real performance of roughly the _same_ dataset each
> test run did the same total number of transactions 512 with each client 
> doing 512/nr_of_trx.

That means you're only measuring a few transactions per backend (as few
as 4, near the upper end of the scale).  I think the results may say
more about backend-startup transients than true peak throughput.
Could you try it again with a run about ten times that long?
        regards, tom lane


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