I found pgbench sometimes receives responces of "UPDATE 0" from HEAD server.
When I re-tested pgbench with 8.4.2 server, all of the results were "UPDATE 1".
Are there known issues in HEAD for concurrent updates?
There were no problems if I used a few (1 or 2) connections, but 3 or more
connections returns 0-UPDATEs. Since it also failed with -j1, multi-threading
has nothing to do with the issue. So, there might be a bug in the server.
I wrote the attached just for debugging. Strangely, even if it returns
"UPDATE 0", I can retrive a row with the same condition after pgbench.
$ pgbench -i
$ pgbench -c3 -j1 -T10
starting vacuum...end.
[0] miss update: UPDATE pgbench_branches SET bbalance = bbalance + :delta WHERE bid = :bid; => UPDATE 0
[0] variable: aid = 16625
[0] variable: bid = 1
[0] variable: delta = 1169
[0] variable: naccounts = 100000
[0] variable: nbranches = 1
[0] variable: ntellers = 10
[0] variable: scale = 1
[0] variable: tid = 1
$ psql -c "SELECT * FROM pgbench_branches WHERE bid = 1;"
bid | bbalance | filler
-----+----------+--------
1 | -27026 |
(1 row)
I found the issue when I tested pg_stat_statements with pgbench.
There were differences in 'calls' and 'rows' fields in it, but
it should be same because pgbench always updates a row per query.
Regards,
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Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center