Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > But one of the purposes of pgbench is examining performance on
> > > different environments, doesn't it? I'm afraid hard coded
> > > PREPARE/EXECUTE makes it harder.
> > 
> > I was just thinking that pgbench is for measuring code changes, not for
> > testing changes _in_ pgbench.  Once we know the performance difference
> > for PERFORM, would we still keep the code in pgbench?  Maybe to test
> > later, I guess.
> 
> My concern is PREPARE/EXECUTE may NOT always improve the
> performance. I guess we have very few data to judge PREPARE/EXECUTE is
> good or not. Moreover PREPARE/EXECUTE might be improved in the
> future. If that happens, keeping that switch would help examining the
> effect, no?

It would.  I was just concerned that having both in there would be a
maintenance headache and would perhaps double the amount of code and
make it complicated.  Let see what the author does and we can decide
then.

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