Re: pgbench \for or similar loop

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:02:53PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today (and previously) I wished that pgbench had a mechanism to help
> create simple random databases. For example, I could create a table
> "tenk" and fill it with random stuff like
>
> \setrandom foo 1 10000
> insert into foo values (:foo)
>
> Now I have to run this 10000 times or something like that. But I don't
> want a transaction for each of those, so I had a desire for something
> like this:
>
> begin;
> \for iterator 1 10000
> \setrandom foo 1 :iterator
> insert into foo values (:foo);
> \end
> commit;
>
> Would something like this be acceptable?

Are existing mechanisms (WITH and DO) insufficient for the purpose?

Cheers,
David.
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