Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Yeah, -s is only meaningful when given with -i. Maybe someday we ought > >> to fix pgbench to complain if you try to set it at other times. > > > You have to pass -s in to the actual run if you're specifying your own > > custom script(s) using -f and you want the :scale variable to be defined. > > Right, I knew that at one time ;-) > > > The way the option parsing code is done would make complaining in the case > > where your parameter is ignored a bit of a contortion. The part that > > detects based on the database is after all the other parsing because the > > connection has to be brought up first. > > Yeah. But couldn't we have that part issue a warning if -s had been set > on the command line?
Patch attached that issues a warning. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
Index: contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c,v retrieving revision 1.79 diff -c -c -r1.79 pgbench.c *** contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c 19 Mar 2008 03:33:21 -0000 1.79 --- contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c 7 May 2008 21:36:42 -0000 *************** *** 1627,1632 **** --- 1627,1635 ---- } } + if (!is_init_mode && scale) + fprintf(stderr, "Scale specification ignored because init mode (-i) not specified\n"); + if (argc > optind) dbName = argv[optind]; else
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