Re: pgbench bug candidate: negative "initial connection time"

On 2021/09/29 22:11, Fujii Masao wrote:
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> On 2021/09/24 11:26, Fujii Masao wrote:
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>> On 2021/09/24 7:26, Yugo NAGATA wrote:
>>> That makes sense. Failures of setup connection or initial connection doesn't
>>> seem 'static problems'. I rewrote this description to explain exit status 1
>>> indicates also interal errors and early errors.
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>>>    Exit status 1 indicates static problems such as invalid command-line options
>>>    or internal errors which are supposed to never occur.  Early errors that occur
>>>    when starting benchmark such as initial connection failures also exit with
>>>    status 1.
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>> LGTM. Barring any objection, I will commit the patch.
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> I extracted two changes from the patch and pushed (also back-patched) them.
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> The remainings are the changes of handling of initial connection or
> logfile open failures. I agree to push them at least for the master.
> But I'm not sure if they should be back-patched. Without these changes,
> even when those failures happen, pgbench proceeds the benchmark and
> reports the result. But with the changes, pgbench exits immediately in
> that case. I'm not sure if there are people who expect this behavior,
> but if there are, maybe we should not change it at least at stable branches.
> Thought?

The current behavior should be improved, but not a bug.
So I don't think that the patch needs to be back-patched.
Barring any objection, I will push the attached patch to the master.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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