tablefunc: Reject negative number of tuples passed to normal_rand()
The function converted the first argument i.e. the number of tuples to
return into an unsigned integer which turns out to be huge number when
a negative value is passed. This causes the function to take much
longer time to execute. Instead, reject a negative value.
(If someone really wants to generate many more result rows, they
should consider adding a bigint or numeric variant.)
While at it, improve SQL test to test the number of tuples returned by
this function.
Author: Ashutosh Bapat <
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Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAG-ACPW3PUUmSnM6cLa9Rw4BEC5cEMKjX8Gogc8gvQcT3cYA1A@mail.gmail.com