Re: pgbench - allow to create partitioned tables

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 19:26, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:

>
> Hello devs,
>
> While doing some performance tests and reviewing patches, I needed to
> create partitioned tables. Given the current syntax this is time
> consumming.
>

Good idea. I wonder why we didn't have it already.


> The attached patch adds two options to create a partitioned "account"
> table in pgbench.
>
> It allows to answer quickly simple questions, eg "what is the overhead of
> hash partitioning on a simple select on my laptop"? Answer:
>
>   # N=0..?
>   sh> pgench -i -s 1 --partition-number=$N --partition-type=hash
>

Given current naming of options, I would call this
--partitions=number-of-partitions and --partition-method=hash


>   # then run
>   sh> pgench -S -M prepared -P 1 -T 10
>
>   # and look at latency:
>   # no parts = 0.071 ms
>   #   1 hash = 0.071 ms (did someone optimize this case?!)
>   #   2 hash ~ 0.126 ms (+ 0.055 ms)
>   #  50 hash ~ 0.155 ms
>   # 100 hash ~ 0.178 ms
>   # 150 hash ~ 0.232 ms
>   # 200 hash ~ 0.279 ms
>   # overhead ~ (0.050 + [0.0005-0.0008] * nparts) ms
>

It is linear?

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