Re: [PATCH] add long options to pgbench (submission 1)

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
> This is mostly for reference to the next commitfest.
>
> This very minor patch adds a corresponding long option to all short (one
> letter) options of pgbench. In particular for connection options there is
> now --host --username --port options similar to the "psql" client.
>
> While I was at developing some small extensions to pgbench, ISTM that I
> could do that without much effort.

I don't really have an opinion on whether this is worth doing, but
we'd probably want to update all of our client utilities, not just
pgbench, if we did.

> Note that I'm not so sure about whether to chose singular or plural long
> option names.

I've wondered that myself.

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