Simplify calculation of Poisson distributed delays in pgbench --rate mode.
The previous coding first generated a uniform random value between 0.0 and
1.0, then converted that to an integer between 1 and 10000, and divided that
again by 10000. Those conversions are unnecessary; we can use the double
value that pg_erand48() returns directly. While we're at it, put the logic
into a helper function, getPoissonRand().
The largest delay generated by the old coding was about 9.2 times the
average, because of the way the uniformly distributed value used for the
calculation was truncated to 1/10000 granularity. The new coding doesn't
have such clamping. With my laptop's DBL_MIN value, the maximum delay with
the new coding is about 700x the average. That seems acceptable - any
reasonable pgbench session should last long enough to average that out.
Backpatch to 9.4.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/54a2d5b37b790cbfaf568fbbe6d2cc89650551d1
Modified Files
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contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)