> > But one of the purposes of pgbench is examining performance on
> > different environments, doesn't it? I'm afraid hard coded
> > PREPARE/EXECUTE makes it harder.
>
> I was just thinking that pgbench is for measuring code changes, not for
> testing changes _in_ pgbench. Once we know the performance difference
> for PERFORM, would we still keep the code in pgbench? Maybe to test
> later, I guess.
My concern is PREPARE/EXECUTE may NOT always improve the
performance. I guess we have very few data to judge PREPARE/EXECUTE is
good or not. Moreover PREPARE/EXECUTE might be improved in the
future. If that happens, keeping that switch would help examining the
effect, no?
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Tatsuo Ishii