Re: [HACKERS] pgbench: Skipping the creating primary keys afterinitialization

>> Why not allow -I as a short option for --custom-initialize?
>
> Other options for similar purpose such as --foreign-keys also have
> only a long option. Since I think --custom-initialize option is in the
> same context as other options I didn't add short option to it for now.
> Because the options name is found by a prefix searching we can use a
> short name --cu for now.

Hmmm. I like short options:-)

> I'm inclined to remove the restriction so that we can specify
> --foreign-keys, --no-vacuum and --custom-initialize at the same time.

Ok. I favor that as well.

> I think a list of char would be better here rather than a single
> malloced string to remove particular initialization step easily.
> Thought?

My thought is not to bother with a list of char.

To remove a char from a string, I suggest to allow ' ' to stand for 
nothing and be skipped, so that substituting a letter by space would 
simply remove an initialization phase.

For adding, realloc & append.

-- 
Fabien.