On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:02:53PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Hi, > > Today (and previously) I wished that pgbench had a mechanism to help > create simple random databases. For example, I could create a table > "tenk" and fill it with random stuff like > > \setrandom foo 1 10000 > insert into foo values (:foo) > > Now I have to run this 10000 times or something like that. But I don't > want a transaction for each of those, so I had a desire for something > like this: > > begin; > \for iterator 1 10000 > \setrandom foo 1 :iterator > insert into foo values (:foo); > \end > commit; > > Would something like this be acceptable?
Are existing mechanisms (WITH and DO) insufficient for the purpose? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
