Re: pgbench - add pseudo-random permutation function

Hi David

On 2021-Mar-05, David Steele wrote:

> On 4/2/20 3:01 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2020-Apr-02, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> >
> > > > I'm planning to mark this patch RwF on April 8 and I suggest you
> > > > resubmit if you are able to get some consensus.
> > >
> > > People interested in non-uniform benchmarks would see the point. Why many
> > > people would be happy with uniform benchmarks only while life is not uniform
> > > at all fails me.
> >
> > I don't think we should boot this patch. I don't think I would be able
> > to get this over the commit line in this CF, but let's not discard it.
>
> As far as I can see you are the only committer who has shown real interest
> in this patch. It's been sitting idle for the last year.
>
> What are your current thoughts?

Thanks for prodding. I still think it's a useful feature. However I
don't think I'll have to time to get it done on the current commitfest.
I suggest to let it sit in the commitfest to see if somebody else will
pick it up -- and if not, we move it to the next one, with apologies to
author and reviewers.

I may have time to become familiar or at least semi-comfortable with all
that weird math in it by then.

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