Old things removed from test server code

performance_test_server.py

@@ -108,20 +108,16 @@ def get_field_names_and_schema():
       np.dtype,
       ['i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'i8',
         'i8', 'i8', 'i8', 'f8', 'i8', 'i8', 'f8', 'f8', 'f8',
-        # 'a50', 'a50', 'a50', 'a50']
-        'f8', 'f8', 'f8', 'f8']
+        'a50', 'a50', 'a50', 'a50']
     )
   })
   return field_names, array_schema
 
 def create_zbigarray(memory_size=None, dtype=None):
   '''Create a ZBigArray with memory_size bytes with the defined dtype.'''
-  # if memory_size  and dtype:
   element_number = memory_size // dtype.itemsize
   return ZBigArray((element_number,), dtype)
-  # else:
-    # raise Exception('You need to provide memory_size and dtype, %s - %s' % (memory_size, dtype))
-    
+
 def set_zblock_format(zblk_format):
   '''Set the array to write with the provide zblock format.
   Formats are:
@@ -171,7 +167,7 @@ def populate_array(root, big_array, big_index, schema):
       transaction.commit()
   return {'messages': message_list, 'columns': columns}
 
-def filter_item(item, normalize=True):
+def filter_item(item, normalize=False):
   '''Typecast item to numeric values if it is a: DateTime or falsy to help
   pandas/numpy deal with them. If normalize is True it will typecast strings
   and unicodes to floats too, thus reducing that size dramatically.