Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I don't think any test that we could build would be as useful as simply
> trying the different settings with an installation's real workload.
Benchmarking the real workload isn't always so easy, and might be quite
time consuming to obtain meaningful values. Don't you think that some
test app doing heavy inserts (maybe with multiple processes) would be
sufficient to decide which option is best on that particular machine?
Regards,
Andreas