Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDF6633876 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:47:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10159-01 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:47:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F89C632EFC for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:47:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o7FJlJVm003889; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:47:19 -0400 (EDT) To: Robert Haas cc: Erik Rijkers , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: pgbench acronym tps In-reply-to: References: <2977a7f144f5934e5fde265c042428aa.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Comments: In-reply-to Robert Haas message dated "Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:32:48 -0400" Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:47:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3888.1281901639@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201008/41 X-Sequence-Number: 5865 Robert Haas writes: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Erik Rijkers wrote: >> I noticed that pgbench.sgml (or the manual elsewhere) >> does not explicitly mention what TPS stands for; >> I thought it might be useful to add. >> >> (reason I checked: someone on #postgresql took tps >> to mean 'tuples per second') > The previous paragraph already mentions this, doesn't it? > Although perhaps instead of saying "The last two lines report the > rate..." we could say "The last two lines report the number of > transactions per second...". Robert's wording sounds good to me, committed that way. regards, tom lane