10/01/2018 16:35, Ildar Musin пишет:
> 09/01/2018 23:11, Fabien COELHO пишет:
>> Hello Ildar,
>>
>>> Sorry for a long delay. I've added hash() function which is just an
>>> alias for murmur2. I've also utilized variable arguments feature from
>>> least()/greates() functions to make optional seed parameter, but I
>>> consider this as a hack.
>> Patch needs a rebase after Teodor push for a set of pgbench functions.
> Done. Congratulations on your patch finally being committed : )
>>> Should we probably add some infrastructure for optional arguments?
>> You can look at the handling of "CASE" which may or may not have an
>> "ELSE" clause.
>>
>> I'd suggest you use a new negative argument with the special meaning
>> for hash, and create the seed value when missing when building the
>> function, so as to simplify the executor code.
> Added a new nargs option -3 for hash functions and moved arguments check
> to parser. It's starting to look a bit odd and I'm thinking about
> replacing bare numbers (-1, -2, -3) with #defined macros. E.g.:
>
> #define PGBENCH_NARGS_VARIABLE (-1)
> #define PGBENCH_NARGS_CASE (-2)
> #define PGBENCH_NARGS_HASH (-3)
>> Instead of 0, I'd consider providing a random default so that the
>> hashing behavior is not the same from one run to the next. What do you
>> think?
>>
> Makes sence since each thread is also initializes its random_state with
> random numbers before start. So I added global variable 'hash_seed' and
> initialize it with random() before threads spawned.
>> Like the previous version, murmur2 with seed looks much more random
>> than fnv with seed...
>>
Sorry, here is the patch
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