On 9/20/07, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > I've committed the HOT patch. > > Thanks, much easier to work with it now that it's in. > > > I'd still like to think about whether we > > can be smarter about when to invoke pruning, but that's a small enough > > issue that the patch can go in without it. > > Yeah. I'm doing some micro-benchmarking, and the attached test case is > much slower with HOT. It's spending a lot of time trying to prune, only > to find out that it can't. > > Instead of/in addition to avoiding pruning when it doesn't help, maybe > we could make HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum cheaper. > > I'm going to continue testing, this is just a heads-up that HOT as > committed seriously hurts performance in some cases. (though one can > argue that this test case isn't a very realistic one.)
well, I ran your test on my box and here are the results: pre hot: run 1: 3617.641 ms run 2: 5195.215 ms run 3: 6760.449 ms after vacuum: run 1: 4171.362 ms run 2: 5513.317 ms run 3: 6884.125 ms post hot: run 1: Time: 7286.292 ms run 2: Time: 7477.089 ms run 3: Time: 7701.229 ms those results aren't exactly terrible, and this case is highly artificial. merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org