On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
> IIRC, pg_bench is *extremely* write-heavy. There's probably not that many systems that operate that way. I suspect
thatmost OLTP systems read more than they write, and some probably have as much as a 10-1 ratio.
IMHO the main PostgreSQL design objective is doing a flexible, general
purpose 100% write workload. Which is why Hot Standby and
LISTEN/NOTIFY are so important as mechanisms for offloading read
traffic to other places, so we can scale the total solution beyond 1
node without giving up the power of SQL.
So benchmarking write-heavy workloads and separately benchmarking
read-only workloads is more representative.
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