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| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c b/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c index b5082e0abd6..4dabe6f0ba1 100644 --- a/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c +++ b/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c,v 1.76 2008/03/10 01:23:04 tgl Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c,v 1.77 2008/03/12 02:18:33 tgl Exp $ * * pgbench: a simple benchmark program for PostgreSQL * written by Tatsuo Ishii @@ -811,6 +811,16 @@ init(void) { PGconn *con; PGresult *res; + /* + * 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. + */ static char *DDLs[] = { "drop table if exists branches", "create table branches(bid int not null,bbalance int,filler char(88)) with (fillfactor=%d)", |