Re: [HACKERS] WIP aPatch: Pgbench Serialization and deadlock errors

> The buildfarm is still complaining about the synopsis being too
> wide for PDF format. I think what we ought to do is give up on
> using a <synopsis> for log lines at all, and instead convert the
> documentation into a tabular list of fields. Proposal attached,
> which also fixes a couple of outright errors.

Once I thought about that too. Looks good to me.

> One thing that this doesn't fix is that the existing text appears
> to suggest that the "failures" column is something different from
> the sum of the serialization_failures and deadlock_failures
> columns, which it's obvious from the code is not so. If this isn't
> a code bug then I think we ought to just drop that column entirely,
> because it's redundant.

+1.

> (BTW, now that I've read this stuff I am quite horrified by how
> the non-aggregated log format has been mangled for error retries,
> and will be probably be submitting a proposal to change that.
> But that's a different issue.)

Best reagards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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