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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance List <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Read only transactions - Commit or Rollback
Date: 20 Dec 2005 11:02:29 -0500
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> That surprises me too --- can you provide details on the test case so
> other people can reproduce it?  AFAIR the only performance difference
> between SERIALIZABLE and READ COMMITTED is the frequency with which
> transaction status snapshots are taken; your report suggests you were
> spending 30% of the time in GetSnapshotData, which is a lot higher than
> I've ever seen in a profile.

Perhaps it reduced the amount of i/o concurrent vacuums were doing?

-- 
greg




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