The Clue Was In The Name ....oracle

email from tester: 

This bug is blocking test: bg9876-a, I have elevated it to priority 1.

reply: 

The bug you've raised says "please provide a version of write_transaction() stored procedure, that doesn't write anything to the database", can you explain where you're going with this?

email from tester: 

It is a question of practicality for us, we have used this method in every release, we need to test high throughput rates without a Performance Oracle server.