* Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> [090507 13:02]:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 12:58 -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
>
> > True enough... What about making the prefix be configurable, so by
> > default, it could be "pgbench_", it could be set to "" (to force it to
> > use old pgbench names) or set to "something." to get it to use a
> > different schema (noting that the comparisons to older ones not doing
> > catalog lookups are void).
>
> Then you have to pass the prefix on the command line. That seems a bit
> over doing it for such a simple utility.
Sure, but by putting a sane default (which seems to be leaning towards
"" or "pgbench_"), you don't *need* to do anything on the command line.
> > But by dropping the search_path, you're necessarily changing the catalog
> > comparisons and lookups anyways, because your now taking a "random"
> > search path to follow (which could have multiple entries in it) instead
> > of one guaranteed to be a single, useable entry.
>
> Except that it isn't a guaranteed usable entry, which is why I submitted
> the patch.
Well ya, but at least you didn't have any pgbench result to try and
"compare unevenly" with something else ;-)
a.
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