On 18.8.2013 17:54, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> TBH this seems like way too much cruft to be added in support of what
> are after all *unsupported* releases. And how far back do we stop,
> anyway?
>
> I'd suggest you test all the branches with the newest pgbench
> version that happens to work with the oldest branch you care about.
That won't give me the 9.3-only features (that I really want/need).
> Having said that, it seems like (a) could be fixed with about a
> one-line change, if we simply made it not add the "with
> (fillfactor=%d)" clause when fillfactor was at 100. And I'm not
Yeah, that seems line a nice solution - no additional option.
Another solution is to use custom scripts, and only use pgbench to
execute them. That'd solve the IF EXISTS problem too.
> clear why (b) is a problem; libpq already takes care of suppressing
> application_name when connecting to old servers.
Hmmm, I'm getting this in the log (when connection to 8.0.0):
FATAL: unrecognized configuration parameter "application_name"
but it seems to be working. I'm wondering if FATAL is appropriate here.
Tomas
