Re: Fix around conn_duration in pgbench

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
Cc: Yugo NAGATA <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Asif Rehman <asifr(dot)rehman(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix around conn_duration in pgbench
Date: 2021-08-31 05:01:58
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2108310658400.407166@pseudo
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>> Ok. That makes sense. The output reports "including connections
>> establishing" and "excluding connections establishing" regardless with
>> -C, so we should measure delays in the same way.
>
> On second thought, it's more reasonable and less confusing not to
> measure the disconnection delays at all? Since whether the benchmark result
> should include the disconnection delays or not is not undocumented,
> probably we cannot say strongly the current behavior (i.e., the disconnection
> delays are not measured) is a bug. Also since the result has not included
> the disconnection delays so far, the proposed change might slightly change
> the benchmark numbers reported, which might confuse the users.
> ISTM that at least it's unwise to change long-stable branches for this...
> Thought?

My 0.02€: From a benchmarking perspective, ISTM that it makes sense to
include disconnection times, which are clearly linked to connections,
especially with -C. So I'd rather have the more meaningful figure even at
the price of a small change in an undocumented feature.

--
Fabien.

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