Re: add modulo (%) operator to pgbench

On 9/25/14, 8:38 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> That's my whole reason for not wanting to adopt Fabien's approach in 
> the first place: I was cool with exposing C's modulo operator, but any 
> other modulo semantics seem like they should be built up from 
> general-purpose primitives. 

Maybe; I don't quite understand his requirements well enough yet to know 
if that's possible, or if it's easier to give him a full special 
operator of his own.  But since what you did makes that easier, too, 
forward progress regardless.

> Anyway, I think the first thing is that somebody needs to spend some 
> time testing, polishing, and documenting this patch, before we start 
> adding to it. I'm hoping someone else will volunteer - other tasks 
> beckon. 

I bouncing it to here for you, and I expect to help with those parts 
presumably in addition to Fabien's help: 
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1581