On Fri Jun 9, 2023 at 12:25 PM CDT, Gurjeet Singh wrote: > On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 6:24 AM Gregory Smith <gregsmithpg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Unfortunately there's no simple command line option to change just that one > > thing about how pgbench runs. You have to construct a command line that > > documents each and every step you want instead. You probably just want > > this form: > > > > $ pgbench -i -I dtGvp -s 500 > > The steps are severely under-documented in pgbench --help output. > Grepping that output I could not find any explanation of these steps, > so I dug through the code and found them in runInitSteps(). Just as I > was thinking of writing a patch to remedy that, just to be sure, I > checked online docs and sure enough, they are well-documented under > pgbench [1]. > > I think at least a pointer to the the pgbench docs should be mentioned > in the pgbench --help output; an average user may not rush to read the > code to find the explanation, but a hint to where to find more details > about what the letters in --init-steps mean, would save them a lot of > time. > > [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/pgbench.html > > Best regards, > Gurjeet > http://Gurje.et
I think this would be nice to have if you wanted to submit a patch. -- Tristan Partin Neon (https://neon.tech)
