>>>> The number of retries and maybe failures should be counted, maybe with
>>>> some adjustable maximum, as suggested.
>>>
>>> If we fix the maximum number of attempts the maximum number of failures
>>> for one script execution will be bounded above
>>> (number_of_transactions_in_script * maximum_number_of_attempts). Do you
>>> think we should make the option in program to limit this number much more?
>>
>> Probably not. I think that there should be a configurable maximum of
>> retries on a transaction, which may be 0 by default if we want to be
>> upward compatible with the current behavior, or maybe something else.
>
> I propose the option --max-attempts-number=NUM which NUM cannot be less than
> 1. I propose it because I think that, for example, --max-attempts-number=100
> is better than --max-retries-number=99. And maybe it's better to set its
> default value to 1 too because retrying of shell commands can produce new
> errors..
Personnaly, I like counting retries because it also counts the number of
time the transaction actually failed for some reason. But this is a
marginal preference, and one can be switchted to the other easily.
--
Fabien.