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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Subject: Re: what to revert
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:02:50 -0400
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Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com> writes:
> There were 75 samples each of "disabled" and "reverted" in the
> spreadsheet.  Averaging them all, I see this:

> reverted:  290,660 TPS
> disabled:  292,014 TPS

> That's a 0.46% overall increase in performance with the patch,
> disabled, compared to reverting it.  I'm surprised that you
> consider that to be a "clearly measurable difference".  I mean, it
> was measured and it is a difference, but it seems to be well within
> the noise.  Even though it is based on 150 samples, I'm not sure we
> should consider it statistically significant.

You don't have to guess about that --- compare it to the standard
deviation within each group.

			regards, tom lane


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