Re: Silly bug in pgbench's random number generator - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Silly bug in pgbench's random number generator
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Msg-id 200707170450.l6H4oNW04933@momjian.us
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In response to Silly bug in pgbench's random number generator  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Silly bug in pgbench's random number generator
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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
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