Re: [PATCHES] Win32 CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() performance

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>I could make the whole dataset available, but tarred and zipped it's 
>>about 300Mb. The reason I used this dataset was that I wanted to see a 
>>test that took many seconds, and Merlin's did not - I wanted to see how 
>>any performance gain scaled.
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>Well, you tried to "scale" into a domain where the performance is going
>to be disk-I/O-limited, so I'm not sure it proves anything.
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Good point. I took a 5% random extract from the lineitems table and saw 
the expected improvement.

cheers

andrew