Re: Optimized pgbench for 8.3

> Tatsuo, would you please comment on this patch?

Sure. I will come up with a comment by the end of this week.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

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> ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> > The attached is a patch to optimize contrib/pgbench using new 8.3 features.
> >
> > - Use DROP IF EXISTS to suppress errors for initial loadings.
> > - Use a combination of TRUNCATE and COPY to reduce WAL on creating
> >   the accounts table.
> >
> > Also, there are some cosmetic changes.
> >
> > - Change the output of -v option from "starting full vacuum..."
> >   to "starting vacuum accounts..." in reflection of the fact.
> > - Shape duplicated error checks into executeStatement().
> >
> >
> > There is a big performance win in "COPY with no WAL" feature.
> > Thanks for the efforts!
> >
> > Regards,
> > ---
> > ITAGAKI Takahiro
> > NTT Open Source Software Center
>
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