On 1/3/24 9:50 AM, arun chirappurath wrote:


On Wed, 3 Jan, 2024, 23:03 Adrian Klaver, <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:

    On 1/3/24 09:24, arun chirappurath wrote:
    > Hi Adrian,
    >
    > Thanks for your mail.
    >
    > Is this for all tables in the database or a subset? Yes

    Yes all tables or yes just some tables?
All tables.except some which has user details.

    >
    > Does it need to deal with foreign key relationships? No
    >
    > What are the sizes of the existing data and what size sample
    data do you
    > want to produce?1Gb and 1Gb test data.

    If the source data is 1GB and the test data is 1GB then there is no
    sampling, you are using the data population in its entirety.

    Yes.would like to double the load and test.


Does that mean you want to take the 1GB of your existing data and double it to 2GB while maintaining

the data distribution from the original data?



Also do we have any standard methods for sampling and generating test data


Something like?:


https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-select.html


"|TABLESAMPLE /|sampling_method|/ ( /|argument|/ [, ...] ) [ REPEATABLE ( /|seed|/ ) ]|

   A |TABLESAMPLE| clause after a /|table_name|/ indicates that the
   specified /|sampling_method|/ should be used to retrieve a subset of
   the rows in that table. This sampling precedes the application of
   any other filters such as |WHERE| clauses. The standard PostgreSQL
   distribution includes two sampling methods, |BERNOULLI| and
   |SYSTEM|, and other sampling methods can be installed in the
   database via extensions

...
   "

Read the rest of the documentation for TABLESAMPLE to get the details.





    >
    > On Wed, 3 Jan, 2024, 22:40 Adrian Klaver,
    <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com
    > <mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>> wrote:
    >
    >     On 1/2/24 23:23, arun chirappurath wrote:
    >      > Hi All,
    >      >
    >      > Do we have any open source tools which can be used to create
    >     sample data
    >      > at scale from our postgres databases?
    >      > Which considers data distribution and randomness
    >
    >
    >
    >      >
    >      > Regards,
    >      > Arun
    >
    >     --
    >     Adrian Klaver
    > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>
    >

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    adrian.kla...@aklaver.com

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