Re: BUG #12379: pgbench should hint to pgbench -i

Le 4 juil. 2015 10:22 PM, "Julien Rouhaud" <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com> a
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>
> On 22/05/2015 11:33, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> >
> >>> HINT:  is "foo" the right database? did you initialize first (pgbench
> >>> -i)?
> >>
> >> I don't think there is precedent for spitting out "HINT:" in client
code
> >> (at least grep didn't find it).  So this message might look like it's
> >> coming from the server, while it doesn't.
> >
> > Here is a v3, which makes it clearer that the hint comes from pgbench.
> >
> > HINT pgbench:  is "foo" the right database? did you initialize first
(-i)?
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just reviewed this patch. First, I've attached a rebased version
> (v4), as the v3 doesn't apply anymore.
>
> The patch is pretty simple, so everything is ok.
>
>
> But I've noticed that if you don't specify any database to pgbench, you
> get an empty database information:
>
> HINT pgbench:  is "" the right database? did you initialize
> first (-i)?
>
>
> This isn't related to this patch specifically, but it may be confusing
> for users.  At least more than the other places it could already appear
> (debug mode and failed connection attempt).
>
> As the database name is optional, wouldn't it be better to fix this
> behavior?
>

I can't look at the code right now, but doesn't it use PQdb() to get the
name of the database? If it doesn't, it probably should.

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Guillaume