Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Could we remove lines 552-560 of pgbench.c? The behavior that guarded
>> against is long gone, and forcing a checkpoint every few thousand tuples
>> seems to be putting a huge crimp in the speed of pgbench -i ...
> I don't see any need for it.
Au contraire. I'm nearly done with pgbench -i -s 500 after about an
hour. The unmodified code ran for several hours and was less than
half done.
regards, tom lane