Re: [HACKERS] pgbench -C -M prepared gives an error

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> It's certainly a bug that the combination of the switches doesn't work,
>> and I already fixed it (47211af17a). My question was more towards
>> whether -C is a useful benchmarking option at all. I cannot imagine
>> a situation in which, if someone said "I'm doing only one transaction per
>> session, and I have a performance problem", I would not answer "yes,
>> and you just explained why".
>
> -1 for removing it. I found myself in need of it just a couple of days
> back when testing the GSSAPI encryption patch with a read-only quick
> load to test if the patch was robust enough to handle a mountain of
> connection attempts.

I've used it, too.

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