Re: [PERFORM] pgbench to the MAXINT

Hi,

I have reviewed this patch.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1068

2012/12/21 Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>:

>     The patch is very much what you had posted, except for a couple of
> differences due to bit-rot. (i) I didn't have to #define MAX_RANDOM_VALUE64
> since its cousin MAX_RANDOM_VALUE is not used by code anymore, and (ii) I
> used ternary operator in DDLs[] array to decide when to use bigint vs int
> columns.
>
>     Please review.
>
>     As for tests, I am currently running 'pgbench -i -s 21474' using
> unpatched pgbench, and am recording the time taken;Scale factor 21475 had
> actually failed to do anything meaningful using unpatched pgbench. Next I'll
> run with '-s 21475' on patched version to see if it does the right thing,
> and in acceptable time compared to '-s 21474'.
>
>     What tests would you and others like to see, to get some confidence in
> the patch? The machine that I have access to has 62 GB RAM, 16-core
> 64-hw-threads, and about 900 GB of disk space.

I have tested this patch, and hvae confirmed that the columns
for aid would be switched to using bigint, instead of int,
when the scalefactor >= 20,000.
(aid columns would exeed the upper bound of int when sf>21474.)

Also, I added a few fixes on it.

- Fixed to apply for the current git master.
- Fixed to surpress few more warnings about INT64_FORMAT.
- Minor improvement in the docs. (just my suggestion)

I attached the revised one.