Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah, -s is only meaningful when given with -i. Maybe someday we ought >> to fix pgbench to complain if you try to set it at other times. > You have to pass -s in to the actual run if you're specifying your own > custom script(s) using -f and you want the :scale variable to be defined. Right, I knew that at one time ;-) > The way the option parsing code is done would make complaining in the case > where your parameter is ignored a bit of a contortion. The part that > detects based on the database is after all the other parsing because the > connection has to be brought up first. Yeah. But couldn't we have that part issue a warning if -s had been set on the command line? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general