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.
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