> pgbench unfortunately seems quite irrelevant to this issue, since it > performs no textual operations whatsoever.
Yup. > It'd be interesting to > modify pgbench so that it updates the "filler" column somehow on each > update (perhaps store a text copy of the new balance there), and then > repeat the tests. Maybe. I'm not sure if it would show significant differences though. Anyway, what I'm interested in include: o regexp/like/ilike operations o very long text handling I'll come up with more testings.. -- Tatsuo Ishii ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly