Re: pgbench enhancements

> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > BTW, running long benchmark using pgbench on BIG tables easily causes
> > an integer overflow error in following SQLs:
>
> Right.
>
> > I'm inclined to change abalance, tbalance and bbalance column to
> > BIGINT to avoid the error. Opinion?
>
> No. The problem is that the deltas are invariably positive, which is
> not realistic (at least *my* bank balance isn't uniformly increasing :-().
> I think the correct fix is just to tweak the range of the randomly
> distributed deltas to be plus and minus not always plus.

I have never thought about it. Seems nice idea. Thanks.

> If you change to bigint then post-change results won't be strictly
> comparable to pre-change results because of the difference in execution
> costs.

Yes, that was my concerning too.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan