Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, 64 looked like the appropriate value too. Actually, I was > surprised to see as much of a slowdown as we did.
I was too. pgbench runs the same backend(s) throughout the test, so it shouldn't be paying anything meaningful in disk I/O for the larger catalog size. After the first set of queries all the relevant catalog rows will be cached in syscache. So where's the performance hit coming from? It'd be interesting to redo these runs with profiling turned on and compare the profiles at, say, 32 and 512 to see where the time is going for larger NAMEDATALEN. Might be something that's easy to fix once we identify it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org