Jeff Frost <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Any idea why I don't see it on 8.3.4? >> >> I think it's more likely some small difference in your test conditions >> than any real version-to-version difference. In particular I think the >> "still see" test might be influenced by the ages of transactions running >> concurrently. > Interesting. This is on a test server which has no other concurrent > transactions and it acts the same way after I stopped 8.3.4 and started up > 8.3.3 again as it did before stopping 8.3.3 to bring up 8.3.4. Hrmm..I'm not > sure that makes sense. So, I did the test with the sql script on 8.3.3, then > shut down 8.3.3, started up 8.3.4 on the same data dir, ran the test > successfully. Next I shut down 8.3.4 and started 8.3.3 and verified that the > behavior was still the same on 8.3.3. I wonder what else I might be doing > differently. Huh. That does sound like it's a version-to-version difference. There's nothing in the CVS log that seems related though. Are you willing to post your test case? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance