Tom, > > What I'm confused about is that this shouldn't be anything new for > > 8.1. Yet 8.1 has *worse* performance on the STP machines than 8.0 > > does, and it's pretty much entirely due to this check. > > That's simply not believable --- better recheck your analysis. If 8.1 > is worse it's not because of page-dumping, because we are more efficient > on that than before not less so. Perhaps there's another issue?
Ach, I want to run head-to-head tests, but the system is down again. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster