Re: pgbench -M option can be specified more than once - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: pgbench -M option can be specified more than once
Date
Msg-id 20181103.210046.1700165445229024615.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: pgbench -M option can be specified more than once  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> On 2018-11-03 10:12:14 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> One of my colleagues actually believed that if both "-M extended" and
>>> "-M prepared" were specified, pgbench runs in mixture of those
>>> modes. So I felt avoiding such misunderstanding is more important.
> 
>> I regularly specify options multiple times, and I'd hate for that to not
>> work anymore.  It's really useful to set defaults for scripts that then
>> can be overwritten by the caller by passing on "$@" (i.e. all script
>> arguments).
> 
> Yeah, there's an ancient tradition that "last switch wins" when receiving
> conflicting command-line options.  I think we should tread very carefully
> in breaking that.

Yes, I think that is a fair argument. Proposal withdrawn.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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