Re: Suggestion to add --continue-client-on-abort option to pgbench

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just did more tests on both pipeline mode and non-pipeline mode, I think the main purpose of
discardAvailableResults()is to drain results for pipeline mode. In non-pipeline mode, a NULL res indicates no more
resultto read; while in pipeline mode, when a pipeline is aborted, either a valid result or NULL could still be
returned,thus we need to wait until pipeline state switch to PQ_PIPELINE_OK. From this perspective, the current inline
commentis correct, but I feel it’s not clear enough. 

Thanks for working on this!

After reconsidering, I think the main goal here is to determine whether
the error causes a connection failure after it occurs.

If we can read and discard results without PQstatus() becoming CONNECTION_BAD
either until the end (in non-pipeline mode) or until the first sync point
after an error (in pipeline mode), that means the connection is still alive,
and processing can continue when --continue-on-error is specified.

The current function comments don’t mention this purpose enough,
so seems they should be updated to clarify that.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao