Re: Fix pgbench --progress report under (very) low rate

On 06/15/2015 09:12 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
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>> v3 rebase (after pgbench moved to src/bin) and minor style tweaking.
>
> v4 adds a fix to another progress timing issue:
>
> Currently if pgbench/postgres get stuck somewhere, the report catches up
> by repeating progresses several time in a row, which looks like that:
>
> progress: 10.0 s ...
> progress: 11.0 s ... stuck...
> progress: 14.2 s catchup for 11.0 -> 14.2
> progress: 14.2 s stupid data
> progress: 14.2 s stupid data
> progress: 15.0 s ...
> progress: 16.0 s ...
>
> The correction removes the "stupid data" lines which compute a reports on
> a very short time, including absurd tps figures.
>
> Yet again, shame on me in the first place for this behavior.

Thanks, applied. I chose to also backpatch this, although arguably this
is a change in behaviour that would not be good to change in a minor
version. However, progress reports are a very user-facing feature, it's
not going to break anyone's scripts.

- Heikki