Re: pgbench not setting scale size correctly?

Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, -s is only meaningful when given with -i. Maybe someday we ought
>> to fix pgbench to complain if you try to set it at other times.

> You have to pass -s in to the actual run if you're specifying your own
> custom script(s) using -f and you want the :scale variable to be defined.

Right, I knew that at one time ;-)

> The way the option parsing code is done would make complaining in the case
> where your parameter is ignored a bit of a contortion. The part that
> detects based on the database is after all the other parsing because the
> connection has to be brought up first.

Yeah. But couldn't we have that part issue a warning if -s had been set
on the command line?

regards, tom lane