Re: Re :MySQL Benchmark page - Problem with vacuum() in PostgreSQL

Sounds eminently reasonable.... my misunderstanding sorry :-(

regards,
Mark

On Saturday 18 August 2001 00:15, Michael Widenius wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The idea is to run the same benchmarks two different ways:
>
> Normal:  Run without any vacuum commands
> Fast:    Run vacuum after each massive update/insert batch
>
> The reason for the 'fast' option is to get more accurate times for
> system that is mostly 'read' oriented.
>
> The test is more done like this:
>
> - Do a lot of inserts
> - vacuum
> - Do a lot of updates/deletes
> - vacuum
> - Do a lot of selects
> - drop tables
>
> Vacuum is never performed in a loop.
>
> In our tests we have noticed that we get a total speedup of 9 times
> when doing vacuum this way.
>
> Regards,
> Monty
>
> PS: The patch / new file we got from Tom Lane to fix the problem with
>     vacuum didn't help.  I will do a complete bug report about this
>     later today.