| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: add modulo (%) operator to pgbench |
| Date: | 2015-01-01 14:11:30 |
| Message-ID: | 20150101141130.GF1457@alvh.no-ip.org |
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David Rowley wrote:
> At the moment I feel the patch is a bit half done. I really think that
> since the gaussian and exponential stuff was added in commit ed802e7d, that
> this should now be changed so that we have functions like random(),
> erandom() and grandom() and the way to use this becomes:
>
> \set name random(1,10)
> \set name erandom(1,10)
>
> And we completely pull out the new \\setrandom additions added in that
> commit.
Sounds good to me. The current syntax is rather messy IMV, and
presumably a function-based syntax might be better.
> We'd likely keep \\setrandom name 1 10 for backwards compatibility.
Yep.
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