Horton

Re: pow support for pgbench

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

View thread View on postgr.es
From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Raúl Marín Rodríguez <rmrodriguez@carto.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Date: 2017-10-30T11:36:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>> Please add this patch to the upcoming commit fest if you would like to
>> get some feedback:
>> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/15/
>>
>> I am adding as well Fabien in CC who worked in getting the internal
>> function infrastructure in the shape it is now (waaay better) with
>> commit 86c43f4.
>
> I think Raúl would do well to review this patch by Fabien
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/alpine.DEB.2.20.1710201835390.15170@lancre
> which adds a few functions and operators.

Good idea. pow() is not added by Fabien's patch, but an operator for
pow() could be something to add as well.
-- 
Michael

Commits

  1. Add pow(), aka power(), function to pgbench.

  2. pgbench: Support double constants and functions.