Re: add modulo (%) operator to pgbench

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: add modulo (%) operator to pgbench
Date: 2014-09-11 16:58:59
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoa2vv_r9tLYQEpBw3xepxfZL04mz7F=kHYof8DYe5sYzg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
> Ok. I do agree that an expression syntax would be great!
>
> However, that would not diminish nor change much the amount and kind of code
> necessary to add an operator or a function

That's not really true. You can't really add abs(x) or hash(x) right
now because the current code only supports this syntax:

\set varname operand1 [ operator operand2 ]

There's no way to add support for a unary operator with that syntax.

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Robert Haas
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