Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I repeat my concern that transaction rates measured with this patch will
>> be significantly different from those seen with the old code
>
> Last time I tried to quantify the overhead of logging with timestamps on
> I couldn't even measure its impact, it was lower than the usual pgbench
> noise.
There's a hardware deficiency on certain machines -- I think it's old
ones. I don't know if machines that would currently be used in
production would contain such a problem.
In any case, I think using SIGALRM as proposed by Tom is a very easy way
out of the problem.
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