On 2021-Jan-20, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:25 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > That's because pgbench reports the input argument dbname, but since you
> > didn't specify anything, then PQconnectdbParams() uses the libpq
> > behavior. I think we'd have to use PQdb() instead.
>
> I figured it was something like that. I don't know whether the right
> thing is to use something like PQdb() to get the correct database
> name, or whether we should go with Tom's suggestion and omit that
> detail altogether, but I think showing the empty string when the user
> relied on the default is too confusing.
Well, the patch seems small enough, and I don't think it'll be in any
way helpful to omit that detail.
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