Re: Relation extension scalability

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> So the first thing here is that the patch seems to be a clear win in
> this test.  For a single copy, it seems to be pretty much a wash.
> When running 4 copies in parallel, it is about 20-25% faster with both
> logged and unlogged tables.  The second thing that is interesting is
> that we are getting super-linear scalability even without the patch:
> if 1 copy takes 20 seconds, you might expect 4 to take 80 seconds, but
> it really takes 60 unpatched or 45 patched.  If 1 copy takes 30
> seconds, you might expect 4 to take 120 seconds, but in really takes
> 105 unpatched or 80 patched.  So we're not actually I/O constrained on
> this test, I think, perhaps because this machine has an SSD.

It's not unusual for COPY to not be I/O constrained, I believe.

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Peter Geoghegan