From: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | "Guillaume Smet" <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: 8.3devel slower than 8.2 under read-only load |
Date: | 2007-11-25 02:35:58 |
Message-ID: | 87abp3hx0x.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com |
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"Guillaume Smet" <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Nov 24, 2007 5:16 PM, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Several of the major changes in 8.3 are I/O vs CPU tradeoffs which could be
>> causing a slowdown if you're measuring primarily CPU resources. I'm thinking
>> of both HOT and packed varlenas. I don't know if either of these are causing
>> your slowdown but it's possible.
>
> Here are some rough results:
> http://people.openwide.fr/~gsmet/postgresql/postgresql_8.3_development_cycle_1.png
>
> I don't pretend that this bench is realistic but it's a first step. I
> run the tests with weird numbers more than 3 times to check that they
> are consistent.
>
> IIRC, packed varlenas were commited during April and HOT at the end of
> September.
Hm, so your test seems to be showing up a difference due to packed varlena?
What functions or operators are you using? Could you send the schema and
actual queries?
--
Gregory Stark
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