Subject: Re: General purpose hashing func in pgbench
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
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From: Ildar Musin <i.musin@postgrespro.ru>
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 17:55:39 +0300
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25/12/2017 17:12, Fabien COELHO пишет:
>
> However, the key can be used if controlled so that different values do
> not have the same randomization in different part of the script, so as
> to avoid using the same patterns for different things if not desirable.
Original murmur algorithm accepts seed as a parameter, which can be used
for this purpose. I used value itself as a seed in the patch, but I can
turn it into a function argument.
>
> For the pgbench pseudo-random permutation I'm looking at, the key can
> be specified to control whether the same pattern or not should be used.
>
Just curious, which algorithm are you intended to choose?

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