Re: Fix for Extra Parenthesis in pgbench progress message

>>> The patch works perfectly for the case that there is one extra brace
>>> as shown in your example. However I think it will not work if there
>>> are two or more extra braces.
>>
>> Are you suggesting adding more space characters before the carriage
>> return
>> in the progress reporting line, like this?
>
> No. I thought about dynamically calculating spaces needed to be
> printed something like attached patch.
>
>> Since the line includes
>> both
>> elapsed and remaining times, its total length doesn’t change much.
>
> Maybe. But I am also worried about the case when we would want to
> change the log line format in the future. We might introduce this kind
> of bug again. By dynamically calculating the number of necessary
> spaces, we don't need to think about the concern.

Probably my patch is too invasive and not worth the trouble for the
stable branches. What about back patching your patch to the stable
stable branches, and applying my patch to the master branch?

Best reagards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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