Re: PostgresSQL 13.0 Beta 1 on Phoronix

From: Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgresSQL 13.0 Beta 1 on Phoronix
Date: 2020-05-24 17:50:08
Message-ID: CAEudQAptGNojc4aEVpiN5ZpXBqzrBQFyZ4bu6BQ=SiL4pTDOfg@mail.gmail.com
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Em dom., 24 de mai. de 2020 às 14:34, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> escreveu:

> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 2:52 AM Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > There was news in Phoronix about the Beta 1 Release of Postgres (1).
> > Unfortunately for Postgres advocacy it does not bring good news,
> > it is showing regressions in the benchmarks compared to version 12.
> > Without going into the technical merits of how the test was done,
> > they have no way of knowing whether such regressions actually exist or
> if it is a failure of how the tests were done.
>
> This shellscript appears to be used by Phoronix to run pgbench:
>
>
> https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/blob/f0f8c726f2700faea363f176a4b28dab026d45d0/ob-cache/test-profiles/pts/pgbench-1.8.4/install.sh
>
> It looks like they're only running pgbench for 60 second runs in all
> configurations -- notice that "-T 60" is passed to pgbench. I'm not
> entirely sure that that's all that there is to it. Still, there isn't
> any real attempt to make it clear what's going on here. I have my
> doubts about how representative these numbers are for that reason.
>
I also find it very suspicious.V12 seems to be better at read-only
workloads (at least it shows the graphics).
I'm using V13, in normal mode (read / write), medium load.

regards,
Ranier VIlela

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