On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 5:42 PM Gregory Smith <gregsmithpg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:25 PM Gurjeet Singh <gurj...@singh.im> wrote: >> >> > $ pgbench -i -I dtGvp -s 500 >> >> The steps are severely under-documented in pgbench --help output. > > > I agree it's not easy to find information. I just went through double > checking I had the order recently enough to remember what I did. The man > pages have this: > > > Each step is invoked in the specified order. The default is dtgvp. > > Which was what I wanted to read. Meanwhile the --help output says: > > > -I, --init-steps=[dtgGvpf]+ (default "dtgvp") > > %T$%%Which has the information without a lot of context for what it's used > for. I'd welcome some text expansion that added a minimal but functional > improvement to that the existing help output; I don't have such text.
Please see attached 2 variants of the patch. Variant 1 simply tells the reader to consult pgbench documentation. The second variant provides a description for each of the letters, as the documentation does. The committer can pick the one they find suitable. Best regards, Gurjeet http://Gurje.et
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