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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I don't see a downside to just increasing the soft limit for
> pgbench.

Agreed, that end of the patch seems relatively harmless.

			regards, tom lane