postgresql/src/test
Bruce Momjian 6cb1f4fe44 The "random" regression test uses a function called oidrand(), which
takes two parameters, an OID x and an integer y, and returns "true" with
probability 1/y (the OID argument is ignored). This can be useful -- for
example, it can be used to select a random sampling of the rows in a
table (which is what the "random" regression test uses it for).

This patch removes that function, because it was old and messy. The old
function had the following problems:

- it was undocumented

- it was poorly named

- it was designed to workaround an optimizer bug that no longer exists
(the OID argument is to ensure that the optimizer won't optimize away
calls to the function; AFAIK marking the function as 'volatile' suffices
nowadays)

- it used a different random-number generation technique than the other
PSRNG-related functions in the backend do (it called random() like they
do, but it had its own logic for setting a set and deciding when to
reseed the RNG).

Ok, this patch removes oidrand(), oidsrand(), and userfntest(), and
improves the SGML docs a little bit (un-commenting the setseed()
documentation).

Neil Conway
2003-02-13 05:24:04 +00:00
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bench Make sure -L and -I's for our source tree are always before system include 2001-02-20 19:20:30 +00:00
examples Update copyright to 2002. 2002-06-20 20:29:54 +00:00
locale Remove all traces of multibyte and locale options. Clean up comments 2002-09-03 21:45:44 +00:00
mb Remove all traces of multibyte and locale options. Clean up comments 2002-09-03 21:45:44 +00:00
performance /usr/local/bin/perl => /usr/bin/perl 2001-09-04 11:41:04 +00:00
regress The "random" regression test uses a function called oidrand(), which 2003-02-13 05:24:04 +00:00
Makefile New unified regression test driver, test/regress makefile cleanup, 2000-09-29 17:17:41 +00:00