Re: pgbench \for or similar loop

Hello

I played with psql extensions two years ago - it can do it

http://okbob.blogspot.com/2009/03/experimental-psql.html

The source code is available on pgfoundry

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2011/4/19 David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:02:53PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today (and previously) I wished that pgbench had a mechanism to help
>> create simple random databases.  For example, I could create a table
>> "tenk" and fill it with random stuff like
>>
>> \setrandom foo 1 10000
>> insert into foo values (:foo)
>>
>> Now I have to run this 10000 times or something like that.  But I don't
>> want a transaction for each of those, so I had a desire for something
>> like this:
>>
>> begin;
>> \for iterator 1 10000
>>  \setrandom foo 1 :iterator
>>  insert into foo values (:foo);
>> \end
>> commit;
>>
>> Would something like this be acceptable?
>
> Are existing mechanisms (WITH and DO) insufficient for the purpose?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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