Re: pgsql: Fix pgbench's failure to honor the documented long-form option "

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Fix pgbench's failure to honor the documented long-form option "
Date: 2017-03-10 03:09:32
Message-ID: 20170310030932.b762pstg6cosw7xc@alvherre.pgsql
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Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> > Not only did it not accept --builtin as a synonym for -b, but what it did
> > accept as a synonym was --tpc-b (huh?), which it got even further wrong
> > by marking as no_argument, so that if you did try that you got a core
> > dump. I suppose this is leftover from some early design for the new
> > switches added by commit 8bea3d221, but it's still pretty sloppy work.
>
> Argh, shame on me. I think at some point --tpc-b was an alias for the
> default script which then got replaced by builtin + name, but the
> implementation did not follow the upgrade:-( Sorry for the result.

Ouch, this is terrible. I was so focused on the actual feature that I
forgot to verify that the UI was sane. I know I only tested using -b ...

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