Re: gaussian distribution pgbench -- splits v4

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
>> nor am I in favor of patch B.
>
> Yep. Would providing these as additional contrib files be more acceptable?
> Something like "tpc-b-gauss.sql"... Otherwise there is no example available
> to show the feature.

To be honest, it just feels like clutter to me. If we added examples
for every feature that is as significant as this one is, we'd end up
with twice the installation footprint, and most of it would be stuff
nobody ever looked at. I think the documentation is good enough that
people will be able to understand how to use this feature, which is
good enough for me.

One thing that might still be worth doing is including the standard
pgbench scripts in the pgbench documentation. Then we could say
things like "and you could also modify these". Right now I tend to
end up cut-and-pasting from the source code, which is fine if you're a
hacker but not so user-friendly.

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