Re: pgbench: Skipping the creating primary keys after initialization

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'd like to propose a new option -I for pgbench command which skips
> the creating primary keys after initialized tables. This option is
> useful for users who want to do bench marking with no index or indexes
> other than btree primary index. If we initialize pgbench tables at a
> large number scale factor the primary key index creation takes a long
> time even if we're going to use other types of indexes. With this
> option, the initialization time is reduced and you can create indexes
> as you want.
>
> Feedback is very welcome. I'll add this patch to the next CF.

I support adding an option for this, but I propose that we just make
it a long-form option, similar to --log-prefix or --index-tablespace.

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