Re: [HACKERS] log_destination=file

Hi

> On 31 August 2017 at 14:49, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

>> Are you actually asking for a benchmark of if logging gets slower?

>

> Yes.

>

>> If so,

>> could you suggest a workload to make an actual benchmark of it (where

>> logging would be high enough that it could be come a bottleneck -- and not

>> writing the log data to disk, but the actual logging). I'm not sure what a

>> good one would be.

>

> pgbench with log_statement = all would be a pretty easy test case.

This part of the discussion caught my attention, and I tried to perform such

easy test. I was doing:

pgbench -S -j2 -c${clients} -T500 test

with `log_statement=all` and `log_destination=stderr`, what I assume should be

enough to get some approximation for numbers.

scaling factor: 100

average latency:

clients     patch       master

10          1.827       1.456

20          4.027       3.300

30          6.284       4.921

40          8.409       6.767

50          10.985     8.646

It seems that for this particular workload it was about 20-25% slower.