Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The tables will be created and used in schema 'a', and the effective
>> search path depth will be the same.
> The case to be concerned about here is where the search_path changes
> between initialization and the pgbench run, which certainly isn't
> impossible. That can leave you with a longer effective path to search.
> Pretty unlikely to be a problem in the field though.
Yeah. Also, there is another consideration here that hasn't been
brought up AFAIR: the main point of running pgbench in-the-field
is to find out whether your installation is properly tuned. If
you've chosen a search_path setting that *did* have some unexpected
performance issues, wouldn't you want pgbench to reveal that?
It's peculiar to have pgbench forcing this one particular GUC setting
and not any others.
regards, tom lane