On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:28:16PM -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> I just did pgbench -i 100 -q via ssh and noticed it was *way* slower than I
> expected.  Did it with debian's pgbench, no such issue.
> 
> It's due to this patch.
> 
> /srv/dev/build/m-opt/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench -i -s 10 -Idtg -h /tmp -q > 
> /tmp/pgiu 2>&1
> 
> With HEAD:
> pgbench -i -s 10 -Idtg -h /tmp -q 2>&1|wc
> 1000114      52 1000448
> 
> With af35fe501af reverted:
> pgbench -i -s 10 -Idtg -h /tmp -q 2>&1|wc
>       6      52     340
> 
> Outputting that many lines to the terminal causes noticeable slowdowns even
> locally and make the terminal use a *lot* more cpu cycles.

Presumably we should only fputc(eol, stderr) when we actually fprintf()
above this point.

> Given the upcoming set of minor releases, I think it may be best for this this
> patch ought to be reverted for now.

+1, since we're nearing the freeze and this doesn't seem like a
particularly urgent bug fix.

-- 
nathan


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