Re: pgbench --tuple-size option

On 2014-08-15 11:58:41 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> 
> Hello Andres,
> 
> >>This patch adds an option to change the default tuple size, so that this can
> >>be tested easily.
> >
> >I don't think it's beneficial to put this into pgbench. There really
> >isn't a relevant benefit over using a custom script here.
> 
> The scripts to run are the standard ones. The difference is in the
> *initialization* phase (-i), namely the filler attribute size. There is no
> custom script for initialization in pgbench, so ISTM that this argument does
> not apply here.

The custom initialization is to run a manual ALTER after the
initialization.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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