Add a comment explaining one of the ways that pgbench fails to fully

comply with TPC-B.  Per Itagaki Takahiro and discussion of bug#3681.
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Tom Lane 2008-03-12 02:18:33 +00:00
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/*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c,v 1.76 2008/03/10 01:23:04 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c,v 1.77 2008/03/12 02:18:33 tgl Exp $
*
* pgbench: a simple benchmark program for PostgreSQL
* written by Tatsuo Ishii
@ -811,6 +811,16 @@ init(void)
{
PGconn *con;
PGresult *res;
/*
* Note: TPC-B requires at least 100 bytes per row, and the "filler"
* fields in these table declarations were intended to comply with that.
* But because they default to NULLs, they don't actually take any
* space. We could fix that by giving them non-null default values.
* However, that would completely break comparability of pgbench
* results with prior versions. Since pgbench has never pretended
* to be fully TPC-B compliant anyway, we stick with the historical
* behavior.
*/
static char *DDLs[] = {
"drop table if exists branches",
"create table branches(bid int not null,bbalance int,filler char(88)) with (fillfactor=%d)",