Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Fabien COELHO wrote:
>>> I just wasted some time puzzling over strange results from pgbench.
>>> I eventually realized that I'd been testing against the wrong server,
>>> because rather than "-p 65432" I'd typed "-P 65432", thereby invoking
>>> the recently added --progress option.  pgbench has no way to know that
>>> that isn't what I meant; the fact that both switches take integer
>>> arguments doesn't help.

>> ISTM that this is an unfortunate but unlikely mistake, as "-p" is
>> used in all postgresql commands to signify the port number (psql,
>> pg_dump, pg_basebackup, createdb, ...).

> Plus other tools already use -P for progress, such as rsync.

Yeah, but they don't make -P take an integer argument.  It's that
little frammish that makes this problem significant.

I don't object to having the --progress switch.  I just think we
could live without a short form for it.

                        regards, tom lane


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