Re: Avoiding inadvertent debugging mode for pgbench

On 2024-Mar-01, Euler Taveira wrote:

> I don't like to break backward compatibility but in this case I suspect that it
> is ok. I don't recall the last time I saw a script that makes use of -d option.
> How often do you need a pgbench debug information?

I wondered what the difference actually is, so I checked.  In -i mode,
the only difference is that if the tables don't exist before hand, we
receive the NOTICE that it doesn't.  In normal mode, the -d switch emits
so much junk that I would believe if somebody told me that passing -d
distorted the benchmark results; and it's hard to believe that such
output is valuable for anything other than debugging pgbench itself.

All in all, I support the original patch.

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