Re: BUG #3681: fillers are NULL in pgbench

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "ITAGAKI Takahiro" <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > All of filler fields in branches, tellers and history is NULL. It is
> > probabbly a mistake because there are fields of char(22-88) in the table
> > definitions.
> > TPC-B requires at least 100 bytes per row for all tables used in it.
>
> I'm not in favor of changing this. pgbench has never pretended to be
> "really" TPC-B, nor has anyone ever tried to compare its numbers against
> other TPC-B numbers. On the other hand, people *do* compare pgbench
> numbers to itself over time, and if we make a change like this it will
> break comparability of the results.

Ok, I feel it reasonable.
The attached is a patch to mention it in the source code.

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center