| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Unfortunate choice of short switch name in pgbench |
| Date: | 2014-02-27 13:54:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20140227135454.GM4759@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Fabien COELHO wrote:
> >I just wasted some time puzzling over strange results from pgbench.
> >I eventually realized that I'd been testing against the wrong server,
> >because rather than "-p 65432" I'd typed "-P 65432", thereby invoking
> >the recently added --progress option. pgbench has no way to know that
> >that isn't what I meant; the fact that both switches take integer
> >arguments doesn't help.
>
> ISTM that this is an unfortunate but unlikely mistake, as "-p" is
> used in all postgresql commands to signify the port number (psql,
> pg_dump, pg_basebackup, createdb, ...).
Plus other tools already use -P for progress, such as rsync.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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