Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks
Date: 2002-08-05 21:31:03
Message-ID: 15509.1028583063@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Well, in fact it's not just a question of disk space.

The following numbers are stats for total elapsed time of "make
installcheck" over ten trials:

NAMEDATALEN = 32, FUNC_MAX_ARGS = 16

min | max | avg | stddev
-------+-------+--------+-------------------
25.59 | 27.61 | 26.612 | 0.637003401351409

NAMEDATALEN = 64, FUNC_MAX_ARGS = 32

min | max | avg | stddev
-------+-------+--------+-----------------
26.32 | 29.27 | 27.415 | 1.0337982824947

NAMEDATALEN = 128, FUNC_MAX_ARGS = 32

min | max | avg | stddev
-------+-------+--------+------------------
27.44 | 30.79 | 29.603 | 1.26148105195622

I'm not sure about the trend of increasing standard deviation --- that
may reflect more disk I/O being done, and perhaps more checkpoints
occurring during the test. But in any case it's clear that there's a
nontrivial runtime cost here. Does a 10% slowdown bother you?

regards, tom lane

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