Re: Reducing stats collection overhead

Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> Afaik Tom hadn't finished his patch when I was testing things, so I don't
> know. But we're in the process of benchmarking a new system (dual quad-core
> Xeon) and we'll have a look at how it performs in the postgres 8.2dev we
> used before, the stable 8.2.4 and a fresh HEAD-checkout (which we'll call
> 8.3dev). I'll let you guys (or at least Tom) know how they compare in our
> benchmark.

So, ahem, did it work? :-)

> On 18-5-2007 15:12 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Arjen van der Meijden told me that according to the tweakers.net
>>> benchmark, HEAD is noticeably slower than 8.2.4, and I soon confirmed
>>> here that for small SELECT queries issued as separate transactions,
>>> there's a significant difference. I think much of the difference stems
>>> from the fact that we now have stats_row_level ON by default, and so
>>> every transaction sends a stats message that wasn't there by default
>>> in 8.2. When you're doing a few thousand transactions per second
>>> (not hard for small read-only queries) that adds up.
>> So, did this patch make the performance problem go away?

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