Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:
> As for a more generic solution, the easy part are the "CREATE" stuff and
> the transaction script stuff (existing pgbench scripts).
> For the CREATE stuff, the script language is SQL, the command to use it is
> "psql"...
> The real and hard part is to fill tables with meaningful pseudo-random
> test data which do not violate constraints for any non trivial schema
> involving foreign keys and various unique constraints.
> The solution for this is SQL for trivial cases, think of:
> "INSERT INTO Foo() SELECT ... FROM generate_series(...);"
Yeah. I was also thinking that complicated data-generation requirements
could be handled with plpgsql DO blocks, avoiding the need for hard-wired
code inside pgbench.
regards, tom lane
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