>>> Or, we should terminate the last cycle of benchmark regardless it is
>>> retrying or not if -T expires. This will make pgbench behaves much
>>> more consistent.
>
> I would tend to agree with this behavior, that is not to start any new
> transaction or transaction attempt once -T has expired.
>
> I'm a little hesitant about how to count and report such unfinished
> because of bench timeout transactions, though. Not counting them seems
> to be the best option.
I agree.
>> Hmmm, indeed this might make the behaviour a bit consistent, but I am
>> not
>> sure such behavioural change benefit users.
>
> The user benefit would be that if they asked for a 100s benchmark,
> pgbench does a reasonable effort not to overshot that?
Right.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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