Re: [PATCH] pgbench --throttle (submission 7 - with lag measurement)

>> * ISTM that the impact of the chosen 1000 should appear somewhere.
>
> I don't have a problem with that, but I didn't see that the little table you
> included was enough to do that. I think if someone knows how this type of
> random generation works, they don't need the comment to analyze the impact.
> And if they don't know, that comment alone wasn't enough to help them figure
> it out. That's why I added some terms that might help point the right way
> for someone who wanted to search for more information instead.

Sure. I agree that comments are not the right place for a lecture about
Poisson stochastic processes. Only the "1000" parameter as an impact on
the maximum delay that can be incurred with respect do the target average
delay, and I think that this information is relevant for a comment.

> to generate numbers with a target probability distribution function.
> Normally the code comments tries to recommend references for this sort
> of thing instead. I didn't find a really good one in a quick search
> though.

Yep. Maybe "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution".

--
Fabien.