Re: Press Release, Final Draft?

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 07:08:52PM -0400, Rod Taylor wrote:

> I cannot answer these because I've not tested all workloads under
> different configurations. For my workload on 2 to 4way machines, Pg on
> 8.0 configured similarly to 7.4 was a touch slower (5% or so).

One difference between 7.4 and 8.0 is that the latter has 4 bytes more
per-tuple overhead (the "field compression" done by Manfred Koizar on
7.3 was lost due to subtransactions).  This change alone can make an
important difference, and will affect everyone, in all situations.

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