Re: pgbench - allow backslash-continuations in custom scripts

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgbench - allow backslash-continuations in custom scripts
Date: 2015-06-26 00:15:54
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSgNXVbNLU=Aa-318MKkopwoy_7rS+B1KNBq=82hsqn0A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>> I'm not against you break the backward compatibility of pgbench custom
>>> scripts.
>>>
>>> However I just want to let you know that PostgreSQL Enterprise
>>> Consortium has been published couple of scripts along with reports on
>>> evaluating PostgreSQL, which have been downloaded considerable
>>> numbers.
>>
>> pgbench is a tool for dedicated to developers. Hence people who should
>> be able to fix scripts properly as long as we inform them by
>> documenting it in the release notes so I am not sure that this is
>> actually a problem.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "developers" here but if that means
> people who are developing PostgreSQL itself, I am strongly against
> "pgbench is a tool for dedicated to developers" concept. Pgbench has
> been heavily used by users who want to measure PostgreSQL's
> performance.

I meant "people who can write SQL". Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Please do not take any offense ;)
--
Michael

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