Re: pgbench \for or similar loop

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgbench \for or similar loop
Date: 2011-04-19 17:30:37
Message-ID: 201104191930.37770.andres@anarazel.de
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On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 07:22:54 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> I generally feel that such a feature would be better off done
> server-side --- after all, there's more clients in the world than psql
> and pgbench, and not all of them could use a C library even if we had
> one. But in either case the coding work is going to be dwarfed by the
> design work, if it's done right and not just the-first-hack-that-
> comes-to-mind.
On the other hand doing it client side stresses a different part of the code,
so it might be pretty sensible for pgbench...

Andres

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