Jim, Satoshi, > It should be possible to see what the crossover point is in terms of > benefit using dbt2 and tweaking the transactions that are run, something > I can do if there's interest. But I agree with Satoshi; if there are > people who will benefit from this option (which doesn't hurt those who > choose not to use it), why not put it in?
Because your predicate is still disputed? That is, we don't know that people will benefit yet -- pgbench is a pretty useless benchmark for real performance comparisons. Satoshi, if you can package up a patch on current CVS, I'll throw it at DBT2. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org