On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 01:26:03AM -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:49:06AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Please find the test results for the following set of combinations taken at
> > > 128 client counts:
> > >
> > > 1) Unpatched master, default *_flush_after : TPS = 10925.882396
> > >
> > > 2) Unpatched master, *_flush_after=0 : TPS = 18613.343529
> > >
> > > 3) That line removed with #if 0, default *_flush_after : TPS = 9856.809278
> > >
> > > 4) That line removed with #if 0, *_flush_after=0 : TPS = 18158.648023
> >
> > I'm getting increasingly unhappy about the checkpoint flush control.
> > I saw major regressions on my parallel COPY test, too:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoYoUQf9cGcpgyGNgZQHcY-gCcKRyAqQtDU8KFE4N6HVkA@mail.gmail.com
> >
> > That was a completely different machine (POWER7 instead of Intel,
> > lousy disks instead of good ones) and a completely different workload.
> > Considering these results, I think there's now plenty of evidence to
> > suggest that this feature is going to be horrible for a large number
> > of users. A 45% regression on pgbench is horrible. (Nobody wants to
> > take even a 1% hit for snapshot too old, right?) Sure, it might not
> > be that way for every user on every Linux system, and I'm sure it
> > performed well on the systems where Andres benchmarked it, or he
> > wouldn't have committed it. But our goal can't be to run well only on
> > the newest hardware with the least-buggy kernel...
>
> [This is a generic notification.]
>
> The above-described topic is currently a PostgreSQL 9.6 open item. Andres,
> since you committed the patch believed to have created it, you own this open
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> well in advance of shipping 9.6rc1. Consequently, I will appreciate your
> efforts toward speedy resolution. Thanks.
>
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