Thread: performance differences of major versions

performance differences of major versions

From
"Willy-Bas Loos"
Date:
Hi,

Are there any benchmarks that compare different major versions of PostgreSQL?

Cheers,

WBL

Re: performance differences of major versions

From
"Pavel Stehule"
Date:
Hello

pgbench test - default configuration

Verze    7.3.15    7.4.13    8.0.8    8.1.4    8.2.beta1 8.3beta1
tps    311    340    334    398    423    585

but pgbench is simple test and thise numbers hasnot great value.

Regards
Pavel



On 09/01/2008, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any benchmarks that compare different major versions of
> PostgreSQL?
>
> Cheers,
>
> WBL
>

Re: performance differences of major versions

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hello
>
> pgbench test - default configuration
>
> Verze    7.3.15    7.4.13    8.0.8    8.1.4    8.2.beta1 8.3beta1
> tps    311    340    334    398    423    585
>
> but pgbench is simple test and thise numbers hasnot great value.

Wow, even though it is a single benchmark, I have never seen such a
clear comparison between Postgres versions, and the 8.2->8.3 improvement
is huge, +38% improvement.

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Re: performance differences of major versions

From
"Matthew T. O'Connor"
Date:
Pavel Stehule wrote:
> pgbench test - default configuration
>
> Verze    7.3.15    7.4.13    8.0.8    8.1.4    8.2.beta1 8.3beta1
> tps    311    340    334    398    423    585
>
> but pgbench is simple test and thise numbers hasnot great value.

Was that the same version of pgbench each time?  Or was it the pgbench
that came with each version?  I think pgbench has changed a few times,
if you are using different versions of pgbench, are these numbers at all
meaningful?

Matt

Re: performance differences of major versions

From
"Pavel Stehule"
Date:
On 10/01/2008, Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net> wrote:
> Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > pgbench test - default configuration
> >
> > Verze 7.3.15  7.4.13  8.0.8   8.1.4   8.2.beta1 8.3beta1
> > tps   311     340     334     398     423     585
> >
> > but pgbench is simple test and thise numbers hasnot great value.
>
> Was that the same version of pgbench each time?  Or was it the pgbench
> that came with each version?  I think pgbench has changed a few times,
> if you are using different versions of pgbench, are these numbers at all
> meaningful?
>

I used 8.3 pgbench. I know some problems with it.

pgbench is only one view (one dimension) on PostgreSQL, nothing less
and nothing more. Some cases can be much faster or equal.

> Matt
>

Re: performance differences of major versions

From
"Scott Marlowe"
Date:
On Jan 10, 2008 2:12 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2008, Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net> wrote:
> > Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > > pgbench test - default configuration
> > >
> > > Verze 7.3.15  7.4.13  8.0.8   8.1.4   8.2.beta1 8.3beta1
> > > tps   311     340     334     398     423     585
> > >
> > > but pgbench is simple test and thise numbers hasnot great value.
> >
> > Was that the same version of pgbench each time?  Or was it the pgbench
> > that came with each version?  I think pgbench has changed a few times,
> > if you are using different versions of pgbench, are these numbers at all
> > meaningful?
> >
>
> I used 8.3 pgbench. I know some problems with it.
>
> pgbench is only one view (one dimension) on PostgreSQL, nothing less
> and nothing more. Some cases can be much faster or equal.

While some queries were no faster in 8.2 than in 7.4 for me, there
were many complex reporting queries that were literally thousands of
times faster.  Going from minutes (nearly hours) to a second or less.
The real issue, as usual, is "How much faster is version y than
version x for YOU?"  And only you can answer that by testing.  In
general, I found that complex reporting queries were greatly sped up.
Updates / inserts / deletes were on the order of a bit faster to about
twice as fast.