On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> The FK locking patch isn't on this list; however, I'm hijacking this
> thread to say that some benchmarking runs we tried weren't all that
> great, showing 9% performance degradation on stock pgbench -- i.e. a
> large hit that will harm everybody even if they are not using FKs at
> all. I'm thus setting the patch returned with feedback, which is sure
> to make several hackers happy and tons of users unhappy.
Ouch! That's a real bummer. It makes me glad that you tested it, but
I can't say I'm happy about the outcome. Did you get in any insight
into where the regression is coming from?
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