Re: add modulo (%) operator to pgbench

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: add modulo (%) operator to pgbench
Date: 2015-01-05 18:00:36
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.10.1501051856160.764@sto
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Hello Alvaro,

Here is a v6 with most of your suggestions applied.

> On top of evaluateExpr() we need a comment (generally I think pgbench
> could do with more comments; not saying your patch should add them, just
> expressing an opinion.) Also, intuitively I would say that the return
> values of that function should be reversed: return true if things are
> good.

Comment & inverted return value done.

> I wonder about LOCATE and LOCATION. Can we do away with the latter, and
> keep only LOCATE perhaps with a better name such as PRINT_ERROR_AT or
> similar? I would just expand an ad-hoc fprintf in the single place
> where the other macro is used.

I've used just one PRINT_ERROR_AT() macro consistently.

> Are we okay with only integer operands? Is this something we would
> expand in the future? Is the gaussian/exp random stuff going to work
> with integer operands, if we want to change it to use function syntax,
> as expressed elsewhere?

Nothing for now, I feel it is for a later round.

> [other mail] bring ERROR() macro back

I also prefer the code with it, but the cost-benefit of a pre-C99
compatible implementation seems quite low, and it does imply less (style)
changes with the previous situation as it is.

--
Fabien.

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