On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:44:05 +0100
Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote:
> > On 24 Feb 2022, at 13:58, Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
>
> >> One argument against a backpatch is that this would be disruptive with
> >> tools that parse and analyze the output generated by pgbench. Fabien,
> >> don't you have some tools and/or wrappers doing exactly that?
> >
> > Yep, I like to "| cut -d' ' -fx" and other "line.split(' ')" or whatever.
> >
> > I think that the break of typographical rules is intentional to allow such
> > simplistic low-level stream handling through pipes or scripts. I'd prefer
> > that the format is not changed. Maybe a comment could be added to explain
> > the reason behind it.
>
> That doesn't sound like an overwhelmingly convincing argument to print some
> messages with 'X %' and others with 'X%'.
I agree with Daniel. If inserting a space in front of % was intentional for
handling the result in such tools, we should fix other places where 'X%' is
used in the pgbench output.
Regards,
Yugo Nagata
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Yugo NAGATA <nag...@sraoss.co.jp>
