Re: PATCH: pgbench - merging transaction logs

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: pgbench - merging transaction logs
Date: 2015-03-17 15:50:28
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZ8eFnFeg14bhWYstRdODLHa+f+zDtPjAweOgmPkLcUww@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
> The fprintf we are talking about occurs at most once per pgbench
> transaction, possibly much less when aggregation is activated, and this
> transaction involves networks exchanges and possibly disk writes on the
> server.

random() was occurring four times per transaction rather than once,
but OTOH I think fprintf() is probably a much heavier-weight
operation. The way to know if there's a real problem here is to test
it, but I'd be pretty surprised if there isn't.

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Robert Haas
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