Re: pgbench MAX_ARGS

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgbench MAX_ARGS
Date: 2019-02-26 17:45:04
Message-ID: CANP8+j+qfcSGdKz4kZc5acf=nRp3PrixycD3LM1qFHDzuLsZ2w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 17:38, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2019-02-26 12:57:14 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 12:19, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
> > I've put it as 256 args now.
> >
> > The overhead of that is about 2kB, so not really an issue.
>
> Why not just allocate it dynamically? Seems weird to have all these
> MAX_ARGS, MAX_SCRIPTS ... commands.

For me, its a few minutes work to correct a problem and report to the
community.

Dynamic allocation, run-time errors is all getting too time consuming for a
small thing.

> The eighties want their constants back ;)
>

Made me smile, thanks. ;-)

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