Re: BUG #3681: fillers are NULL in pgbench

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ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> 
> Tom Lane  wrote:
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> > "ITAGAKI Takahiro"  writes:
> > > All of filler fields in branches, tellers and history is NULL. It is
> > > probabbly a mistake because there are fields of char(22-88) in the table
> > > definitions.
> > > TPC-B requires at least 100 bytes per row for all tables used in it.
> > 
> > I'm not in favor of changing this.  pgbench has never pretended to be
> > "really" TPC-B, nor has anyone ever tried to compare its numbers against
> > other TPC-B numbers.  On the other hand, people *do* compare pgbench
> > numbers to itself over time, and if we make a change like this it will
> > break comparability of the results.
> 
> Ok, I feel it reasonable.
> The attached is a patch to mention it in the source code.
> 
> Regards,
> ---
> ITAGAKI Takahiro
> NTT Open Source Software Center
> 

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