Re: gaussian distribution pgbench

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
> On 03/13/2014 03:17 PM, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:49 PM, KONDO Mitsumasa
>> <kondo(dot)mitsumasa(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>>>
>>> (2014/03/09 1:49), Fabien COELHO wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm okay with this UI and its implementation.
>>>
>>>
>>> OK.
>>
>>
>> We should do the same discussion for the UI of command-line option?
>> The patch adds two options --gaussian and --exponential, but this UI
>> seems to be a bit inconsistent with the UI for \setrandom. Instead,
>> we can use something like --distribution=[uniform | gaussian |
>> exponential].
>
>
> IMHO we should just implement the \setrandom changes, and not add any of
> these options to modify the standard test workload. If someone wants to run
> TPC-B workload with gaussian or exponential distribution, they can implement
> it as a custom script. The docs include the script for the standard TPC-B
> workload; just copy-paster that and modify the \setrandom lines.

Yeah, I'm OK with this.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao