Re: add modulo (%) operator to pgbench

David Rowley wrote:

> At the moment I feel the patch is a bit half done. I really think that
> since the gaussian and exponential stuff was added in commit ed802e7d, that
> this should now be changed so that we have functions like random(),
> erandom() and grandom() and the way to use this becomes:
> 
> \set name random(1,10)
> \set name erandom(1,10)
> 
> And we completely pull out the new \\setrandom additions added in that
> commit.

Sounds good to me.  The current syntax is rather messy IMV, and
presumably a function-based syntax might be better.

> We'd likely keep \\setrandom name 1 10 for backwards compatibility.

Yep.

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