Re: Poorly-thought-out handling of double variables in pgbench

Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> writes:
>> A better answer, perhaps, would be to store double-valued variables in
>> double format to begin with, coercing to text only when and if the value
>> is interpolated into a string.

> Yep, but that was yet more changes for a limited benefit and would have
> increase the probability that the patch would have been rejected.

>> That's probably a bigger change than we want to be putting in right now,
>> though I'm a bit tempted to go try it.

> I definitely agree that the text variable solution is pretty ugly, but it
> was the minimum change solution, and I do not have much time available.

Well, I felt like doing some minor hacking, so I went and adjusted the
code to work this way. I'm pretty happy with the result, what do you
think?

regards, tom lane