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Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> pgbench's random number generator was only generating the first and last value
> in the specified range half as often as other values in the range. Not that it
> actually matters but it may as well do what it claims. This line has a pretty
> long and sordid history with various people tweaking it one way and another.
>
> cvs diff: Diffing contrib/pgbench
> Index: contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/stark/src/REPOSITORY/pgsql/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.66
> diff -u -r1.66 pgbench.c
> --- contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c 24 May 2007 18:54:10 -0000 1.66
> +++ contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c 14 Jun 2007 16:22:19 -0000
> @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
> static int
> getrand(int min, int max)
> {
> - return min + (int) (((max - min) * (double) random()) /
> MAX_RANDOM_VALUE + 0.5);
> + return min + (int) (((max - min + 1) * (double) random()) /
> MAX_RANDOM_VALUE);
> }
>
> /* call PQexec() and exit() on failure */
>
>
> --
> Gregory Stark
> EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
>
>
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