> > BTW, I have done some benchmarking using pgbench on this machine and
> > found that 7.2 is almost two times slower than 7.1.
>
> Is this an AIX specific problem or do all/all SMP/all 4way computers
> have it ?
Not sure. As far as I can tell, nobody except me has tested 7.2 on big
boxes.
> Is this a bug that needs to be addresse before release of final ?
I hope this would be solved before final. At least I would like to
know what's going on.
Anyway, I will do some testings on a smaller machine (that is my
laptop) to see if I see the same performance degration on it.
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Tatsuo Ishii