| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
| Cc: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Georgios Kokolatos <gkokolatos(at)pm(dot)me>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: CPU costs of random_zipfian in pgbench | 
| Date: | 2019-04-01 21:51:35 | 
| Message-ID: | 20190401215135.GA31141@alvherre.pgsql | 
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On 2019-Apr-01, Tom Lane wrote:
> Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> writes:
> >> I was wondering about that too.  It seems like it'd be a wise idea to
> >> further constrain s and/or n to ensure that the s > 1 code path doesn't do
> >> anything too awful ...
> 
> > Yep. The attached version enforces s >= 1.001, which avoids the worse cost
> > of iterating, according to my small tests.
> 
> Seems reasonable.  Pushed with minor documentation editing.
Ah, so we now we can get rid of the TState * being passed around
separately for expression execution, too?
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