Re: too much pgbench init output

On 9/1/12 6:30 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.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.