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Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration

Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>

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From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, justin@postgresql.org, josh@agliodbs.com, merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-04-29T04:41:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance 
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 20:10, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> Sigh. People always complain "pgbench does not reliably producing
> repeatable numbers" or something then say "that's because pgbench's
> transaction has too much contention on the branches table". So I added
> -N option to pgbench which makes pgbench not to do any UPDATE to
> the branches table. But still people continue to complian...

What exactly does the -N option do?  I see no mention of it in the
README.pgbench, which might be part of reason people "continue to
complain".