Hello,
>> Yep. Or anything else, including without (), to allow checking the
>> performance impact or non impact of transactions on the initialization
>> phase.
>
> Is there actually such performance impact? AFAIR most time-consuming part in
> initialization phase is the generation of pgbench_accounts data.
Maybe. If you cannot check, you can only guess. Probably it should be
small, but the current version does not allow to check whether it is so.
--
Fabien.