Hello Peter,
>>> The documentation and pgbench --help output that accompanied this patch
>>> claims that the argument to pgbench --partition-method is optional and
>>> defaults to "range", but that is not actually the case, as the
>>> implementation requires an argument. Could you please sort this out?
>>
>> AFAICS, if the user omits this argument, then the default is range as
>> specified in docs. I tried by using something like 'pgbench.exe -i -s
>> 1 --partitions=2 postgres' and then run 'pgbench -S postgres'.
>
> Ah, the way I interpreted this is that the argument to --partition-method
> itself is optional.
Yep. Optionnal stuff would be in [], where () is used for choices.
Would the attached have improved your understanding? It is somehow more
consistent with other help lines.
--
Fabien.