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Re: Should we update the random_page_cost default value?

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> — 2025-10-07T19:20:37Z

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
wrote:

> One of the take-away lessons from this thread for me is that the TPC-*
>> benchmarks are far removed from real world queries. (Maybe if we ask an LLM
>> to use an ORM to implement TPC-H? Ha ha ha!)
>
>
To be clear, I'm saying that TPC queries are written by sane adults that
know what they are doing, but perhaps lowering rpc tends to help more when
the queries are not well-written SQL (which many consultants would argue is
the majority of production queries).


Cheers,
Greg

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