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From: Pierre C <lists@peufeu.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, "Willy-Bas Loos" <willybas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: turn off caching for performance test
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:37:21 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=dBXkp2qMHZOR_gd9eD+cjwMqOwg-N6POGq+ji@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=dBXkp2qMHZOR_gd9eD+cjwMqOwg-N6POGq+ji@mail.gmail.com>


> The bitmap heap scan is 3% faster,

3% isn't really significant. Especially if the new setting makes one query  
100 times slower... Like a query which will, by bad luck, get turned into  
a nested loop index scan for a lot of rows, on a huge table which isn't in  
cache...



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