From 514b3194e80ec71bdbc92798ea946d7b51ea7ac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fujii Masao Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:35:54 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Correct comment of pgbench "filler" columns. Pavan Deolasee --- contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c b/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c index 66ae48e4a7..059c5b7859 100644 --- a/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c +++ b/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c @@ -1537,11 +1537,13 @@ init(bool is_no_vacuum) /* * Note: TPC-B requires at least 100 bytes per row, and the "filler" * fields in these table declarations were intended to comply with that. - * But because they default to NULLs, they don't actually take any space. - * We could fix that by giving them non-null default values. However, that - * would completely break comparability of pgbench results with prior - * versions. Since pgbench has never pretended to be fully TPC-B - * compliant anyway, we stick with the historical behavior. + * The pgbench_accounts table complies with that because the "filler" + * column is set to blank-padded empty string. But for all other tables the + * column defaults to NULL and so don't actually take any space. We could + * fix that by giving them non-null default values. However, that would + * completely break comparability of pgbench results with prior versions. + * Since pgbench has never pretended to be fully TPC-B compliant anyway, we + * stick with the historical behavior. */ struct ddlinfo { @@ -1640,12 +1642,14 @@ init(bool is_no_vacuum) for (i = 0; i < nbranches * scale; i++) { + /* "filler" column defaults to NULL */ snprintf(sql, 256, "insert into pgbench_branches(bid,bbalance) values(%d,0)", i + 1); executeStatement(con, sql); } for (i = 0; i < ntellers * scale; i++) { + /* "filler" column defaults to NULL */ snprintf(sql, 256, "insert into pgbench_tellers(tid,bid,tbalance) values (%d,%d,0)", i + 1, i / ntellers + 1); executeStatement(con, sql); @@ -1675,6 +1679,7 @@ init(bool is_no_vacuum) { int64 j = k + 1; + /* "filler" column defaults to blank padded empty string */ snprintf(sql, 256, INT64_FORMAT "\t" INT64_FORMAT "\t%d\t\n", j, k / naccounts + 1, 0); if (PQputline(con, sql)) { -- 2.40.0