Re: suppress output for benchmarking

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:35:48PM -0500, uwcssa wrote:
>  I am testing the performance of postgresql on a set of workloads. However,
> the output significantly affects the performance evaluation. Is there a way
> to by-pass all output of select statements so the timing reflects only the
> query evaluation process?

SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT ...) a;

If you're using psql \timing will probably be useful as well.

And this is better suited for -general...
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