Re: too much pgbench init output

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On 9/1/12 6:30 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>> When initializing a large database, pgbench writes tons of "%d tuples
>>> done" lines. I propose to change this to a sort of progress counter
>>> that stays on the same line, as in the attached patch.

>> I'm not sure I like this - what if the output is being saved off to a file?

> I suppose we could print \n instead of \r then.

Possibly off-the-wall idea: we could fix the "too much output" problem
once and for all by going to a log scale.

10 tuples done
100 tuples done
1000 tuples done
10000 tuples done
100000 tuples done
...

regards, tom lane