Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
>
>
I was wondering why the -s would not rescale the data?
IMHO a warning would be fine