Re: Postgres 8.0/Windows 2000 Load testing

Bellan Saravanan wrote:
> While performing Load testing using DOTS
> http://ltp.sourceforge.net/dotshowto.php ,
> during the tests, an update to a specific table starts hanging.
>
> The test name is called BTCJ2
> http://ltp.sourceforge.net/dotshowto.php#SEC26,
>
> "This test case mainly uses SQL commands to execute database operations such
> as insert, update, select and delete. This test case uses tables BASIC1,
> BASIC2, BASIC3. For details about the tables, refer to Appendix A."
>
> Postgres itself was running fine and accepting new connections and able to
> perform queries on the same table. Only the UPDATE was hanging.
>
> There was no interesting messages in the log file. I was running with debug
> level 2. I can see the last line which prints the UPDATE statement. Using
> debug level 3 the file grows very large and it very slow.
>
> Let me know if you want anymore information.

Any chance of testing this on Unix?  It might be some way our MVCC is
interacting with the test and not a Win32-specific issue.

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