Re: Script which shows performance of ByteA: ascii vs binary

From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Francisco Olarte <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Güttler <guettliml(at)thomas-guettler(dot)de>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Script which shows performance of ByteA: ascii vs binary
Date: 2019-03-22 12:48:32
Message-ID: 20190322124832.GA5616@aart.rice.edu
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 01:40:28PM +0100, Francisco Olarte wrote:
> Thomas:
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:22 AM Thomas Güttler
> <guettliml(at)thomas-guettler(dot)de> wrote:
> > Thank you for asking several times for a benchmark.
> > I wrote it now and it is visible: inserting random bytes into bytea is much slower,
> > if you use the psycopg2 defaults.
> > Here is the chart:
> > https://github.com/guettli/misc/blob/master/bench-bytea-inserts-postrgres.png
> > And here is the script which creates the chart:
> > https://github.com/guettli/misc/blob/master/bench-bytea-inserts-postrgres.py
>
> I'm not too sure, but I read ( in the code ) you are measuring a
> nearly not compressible urandom data againtst a highly compressible (
> 'x'*i ) data,
> are you sure the difference is not due to data being compressed and
> generating much less disk usage in toast-tables/wal?
>
> Francisco Olarte.
>
+1

Regards,
Ken

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