Hi Juan,

Le ven. 17 mai 2019 à 11:26, Juan José Santamaría Flecha <
juanjo.santama...@gmail.com> a écrit :

>
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:16 AM Lætitia Avrot <laetitia.av...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Given that, I think it would be a good thing to generalize the -d switch
>> (and maybe the --maintenance-db switch too).
>>
>>
> Just a couple of quick comments:
>
>     Some of those tools user --dbname as a long option.
>

You're right. I checked and each and every tool that allow the -d switch
allows the --dbname. So, of course, if -d is implemented for all Postgres
client, --dbname should be allowed too.


>     Most of those tools also use the connection environment variables used
> by libpq: PGDATABASE
>     Pgbench is documented [1]: pgbench [option...] [dbname]
>

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. My point was using a connection string is not
documented. Here is PgBench documentation about dbname:

> where *dbname* is the name of the already-created database to test in.
(You may also need -h, -p, and/or -U options to specify how to connect to
the database server.)

Cheers,

Lætitia

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