Re: pgbench acronym tps

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgbench acronym tps
Date: 2010-08-15 19:47:19
Message-ID: 3888.1281901639@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
>> I noticed that pgbench.sgml (or the manual elsewhere)
>> does not explicitly mention what TPS stands for;
>> I thought it might be useful to add.
>>
>> (reason I checked: someone on #postgresql took tps
>> to mean 'tuples per second')

> The previous paragraph already mentions this, doesn't it?

> Although perhaps instead of saying "The last two lines report the
> rate..." we could say "The last two lines report the number of
> transactions per second...".

Robert's wording sounds good to me, committed that way.

regards, tom lane

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