Argh, I'm an idiot ... a big part of the problem with the original fork-based pgbench is that I'd rearranged the startup code without noticing a data dependency. You can't initialize the default scripts until you've gotten the correct value of "tps" by inspecting the database. What was happening was that it was making tps = 1 always, which meant that every transaction tried to update the bid = 1 row of "branches", which resulted in strict serialization of transactions. Performance of the attached version is markedly better ;-)
regards, tom lane
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