Re: [HACKERS] WIP Patch: Pgbench Serialization and deadlock errors

On 11-07-2018 20:49, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Jul-11, Marina Polyakova wrote:
>
>> can we try something like this?
>>
>> PGBENCH_ERROR_START(DEBUG_FAIL)
>> {
>> PGBENCH_ERROR("client %d repeats the failed transaction (try %d",
>> st->id, st->retries + 1);
>> if (max_tries)
>> PGBENCH_ERROR("/%d", max_tries);
>> if (latency_limit)
>> {
>> PGBENCH_ERROR(", %.3f%% of the maximum time of tries was used",
>> getLatencyUsed(st, &now));
>> }
>> PGBENCH_ERROR(")\n");
>> }
>> PGBENCH_ERROR_END();
>
> I didn't quite understand what these PGBENCH_ERROR() functions/macros
> are supposed to do. Care to explain?

It is used only to print a string with the given arguments to stderr.
Probably it might be just the function pgbench_error and not a macro..

P.S. This is my mistake, I did not think that PGBENCH_ERROR_END does not
know the elevel for calling exit(1) if the elevel >= ERROR.

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