Re: 7.4b1 vs 7.3.4 performance

expect wrote:

>
> Where does pgbench come from?
>

pgbench is one of the modules in the postgresql
contrib directory.  After building postgresql,
cd to contrib/pgbench, gmake, su to root,
gmake install.

> What were the config settings?

Both 7.3.4 and 7.4 had:

3072 buffers
4096K sort memory
16384K vacuum memory
fsync false
16 WAL buffers
statistics on