Greg,
> What I was referring to by "passing" TPC-E was the criteria for a conformant
> benchmark run. TPC-C has iirc, only two relevant criteria: "95th percentile
> response time < 5s" and "average response time < 95th percentile response
> time". You can pass those even if 1 transaction in 20 takes 10-20s which is
> more than enough to cover checkpoints and other random sources of inconsistent
> performance.
We can do this now. I'm unhappy because we're at about 1/4 of Oracle
performance, but we certainly pass -- even with 8.2.
--Josh