Re: [HACKERS] pow support for pgbench

Hello Raúl,

> Sorry about the patch. Attaching it now so it can be considered as
> submitted.

There is a typo in the XML doc:
    <literal>1024.0/<literal>

Please check that the documentation compiles.

I'm at odds with having the integer version rely on a double pow(), even 
if it works. I think that there should be a specific integer version which 
does use integer operations. From stack overflow, the following is 
suggested:
 int ipow(int base, int exp) {    int result = 1;    while (exp)    {        if (exp & 1)            result *= base;
   exp >>= 1;        base *= base;    }
 
    return result; }

The integer version should be when x & y are integers *AND* y >= 0.

if y is a negative integer, the double version should be used.

-- 
Fabien.
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