Hello I played with psql extensions two years ago - it can do it
http://okbob.blogspot.com/2009/03/experimental-psql.html The source code is available on pgfoundry Regards Pavel Stehule 2011/4/19 David Fetter <da...@fetter.org>: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:02:53PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Today (and previously) I wished that pgbench had a mechanism to help >> create simple random databases. For example, I could create a table >> "tenk" and fill it with random stuff like >> >> \setrandom foo 1 10000 >> insert into foo values (:foo) >> >> Now I have to run this 10000 times or something like that. But I don't >> want a transaction for each of those, so I had a desire for something >> like this: >> >> begin; >> \for iterator 1 10000 >> \setrandom foo 1 :iterator >> insert into foo values (:foo); >> \end >> commit; >> >> Would something like this be acceptable? > > Are existing mechanisms (WITH and DO) insufficient for the purpose? > > Cheers, > David. > -- > David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com > iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics > > Remember to vote! > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers