Re: pgbench: Skipping the creating primary keys after initialization

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>> I think we can use it like --custom-initialize="create_table, vacuum"
>> which is similar to what we specify a connection option to psql for
>> example.
>
>
> Even if it is allowed, do not advertise it. Or use space as a separator and
> not comma. ISTM that with psql connections space is the higher level
> separator, not an optional thing, and comma is used for lower level
> splitting: "host=foo port=5432,5433 ..."
>
>> But it will be unnecessary if we have the one letter version.
>
>
> Sure.
>
>>> I'm also wondering whether using a list is a good option, because it
>>> implies
>>> a large parse function, list management and so on. With the one letter
>>> version, it could be just a string to be scanned char by char for
>>> operations.
>>
>>
>> I basically agree with the one letter version. But I'm concerned that
>> it'll confuse users if we have more initialization steps for the
>> pgbench initialization. If we add more various initialization steps it
>> makes pgbench command hard to read and the users might have to
>> remember these options.
>
>
> I think that if we get to the point where so many initialization steps that
> people get confused, then adding long names will not be an issue:-)
>
> In the mean time it only needs 5 values.

Agreed.

>
>>> Maybe there could be short-hands for usual setups, eg "default" for
>>> "tdpv"
>>> or maybe "ct,ld,pk,va", "full" for "tdpfv" or maybe "ct,ld,pk,fk,va"...
>>
>>
>> If --custom-initialize option requires for i option to be set,
>> "pgbench -i" means the initialization with full steps and "pgbench -i
>> --custom-initialize=..." means the initialization with custom
>> operation steps.
>
>
> Sure. It does not preclude the default to have a name.
>
>>> Remove the "no-primary-keys" from the long option array as it has
>>> disappeared. You might consider make "custom-initialize" take the 'I'
>>> short
>>> option.
>>>
>>> Ranting unrelated to this patch: the automatic aid type switching based
>>> on
>>> scale is a bad idea (tm), because when trying to benchmark it means that
>>> changing the scale also changes the schema, and you really do not need
>>> that.
>>> ISTM that it should always use INT8.
>>
>>
>> Hmm, I think it's a valid point. Should we allow users to specify like
>> the above thing in the custom initialization feature as well?
>
>
> I would be in favor of having an option to do a tpc-b conforming schema
> which would include that, but which would also change the default balance
> type which is not large enough per spec. Maybe it could be "T".
>

Yeah, once custom initialization patch get committed we can extend it.

Attached updated patch. I've incorporated the all comments from Fabien
to it, and changed it to single letter version.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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