Database performance geeks, We have a number of patches pending for 8.4 designed to improve database performance in a variety of circumstances. We need as many users as possible to build test versions of PostgreSQL with these patches, and test how well they perform, and report back in some detail.
Particularly, users with unusual hardware architectures (16 or more cores, ARM, Power, SSD, NFS-mounted data) or operating systems (Solaris, OSX, Windows-64) are really helpful. Testers need to be familiar with building PostgreSQL from source and patching it, as well as basic PostgreSQL Tuning (except for the Wizard Patch) and have some kind of performance test available, ideally something based on your own application use. If you are going to use pgbench to test, *please* read Greg Smith's notes first: http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/gregsmith/content/postgresql/pgbench-scaling.htm The Wiki (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFest_2008-11) has a full list of patches, but below are the ones in particular we could use help with. You *do* need to read the entire mail threads which I link to below to understand the patches. Thanks for your help! Proposal of PITR performance improvement (Koichi Suzuki): http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Simple postgresql.conf wizard http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Improve Performance of Multi-Batch Hash Join for Skewed Data Sets http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Window Functions http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] parallel restore (especially need to test on 16+ cores) http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] B-Tree emulation for GIN http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, the following patches currently still have bugs, but when the bugs are fixed I'll be looking for performance testers, so please either watch the wiki or watch this space: -- Block-level CRC checks (Alvaro Herrera) -- Auto Partitioning Patch (Nikhil Sontakke) -- posix_fadvise (Gregory Stark) -- Hash Join-Filter Pruning using Bloom Filters -- On-disk bitmap indexes Please report your results, with the patchname in the subject line, on this mailing list or on -hackers. Thank you, and your help will get a better 8.4 out sooner. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL San Francisco -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
