Re: Unfortunate choice of short switch name in pgbench

Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> writes:
>> Yeah, but they don't make -P take an integer argument. It's that
>> little frammish that makes this problem significant.

> I do not see a strong case to make options with arguments case insensitive
> as a general rule. If this is done for -p/-P, why not -t/-T?

I have not proposed fooling with -t/-T; people are used to that one,
and it's a core part of what pgbench does, so it's reasonable to expect
that people are familiar with it. It helps also that -t and -T do
somewhat related things, ie constrain the length of the test --- so even
if you pick the wrong one, you still get behavior that's somewhat sane.

> If you really fell you must remove -P, please replace it by another
> one-letter, I use this option nearly everytime a run pgbench.

Meh. If I thought -P would be that popular, I'd expect people to get
used to the issue. I don't believe it though.

regards, tom lane