Re: Pgbench with -f and -S

Got it. Thanks for explaining that. Was looking at -S earlier and didn't
notice the new -b and @ weight options in 9.6devel.

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 at 10:54 Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:

>
> >> For the future 9.6, scripts options are cumulatives, so -f & -S can be
> >> combined.
> >>
> >> Indeed, for the <= 9.5 it seems that some options are silently ignores,
> >> when combining -S/-f, only the last one is kept, it should be warned
> about.
> > ​
> > ​Thanks Fabien, for confirming about the missing warning.
> >
> > Also, by 'combined' I think you mean that both (built-in SELECTs & Custom
> > Script) run, although the dev docs don't (yet) say anything about that.
>
> Hmmm... I think it does implicitely, with "add" and "and" in the
> following:
>
> From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/pgbench.html:
>
> -b scriptname[(at)weight]
> Add the specified builtin script to the list of executed scripts. [...]
>
> Idem -f.
>
> And later at the beginning of the Notes:
>
> pgbench executes test scripts chosen randomly from a specified list.
> They include built-in scripts with -b and user-provided custom scripts
> with -f.
> [...]
>
> --
> Fabien.

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