Greg Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Justin wrote:
>
>> I was wondering why the -s would not rescale the data?
>
> First, you don't know how to rescale the data if someone is passing in
> a custom script. More importantly, people don't expect the benchmark
> tool to change things in tables unless specifically requested. I once
> made the unfortunate mistake of running 'pgbench -i' against the wrong
> database, one that just happened to have a table named 'accounts' in
> it, only to watch that table get destroyed. It would be unwise to
> make that behavior easier to trigger.
>
> pgbench is a fairly flexible tool that supports creating simple
> scripted tests for a variety of purpose. It just so happens that most
> people only ever use the default tests where it seems things could be
> simplified. They could, but it would take some of the flexibility out
> as well.
>
> --
> * Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
>
OK, what if it warns on the -s is set when missing -i and when ( -i
and -f is set in the same command) ???