Re: pgbench test failing on 14beta1 on Debian/i386

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgbench test failing on 14beta1 on Debian/i386
Date: 2021-05-19 07:27:54
Message-ID: YKS9+rPdGUGGEX+E@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:06:16AM +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> I see two simple approaches:
>
> (1) use another PRNG inside pgbench, eg Knuth's which was used in some
> previous submission and is very simple and IMHO better than the rand48
> stuff.
>
> (2) extend pg_*rand48() to provide an unsigned 64 bits out of the 48 bits
> state.

Or, (3) remove this test? I am not quite sure what there is to gain
with this extra test considering all the other tests with permute()
already present in this script.
--
Michael

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