Re: pgbench - allow to create partitioned tables

On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 16:48, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:

>
> >> Yeah, I know that, but this doesn't look quite right.  I mean to say
> >> whatever we want to say via this message is correct, but I am not
> >> completely happy with the display part.  How about something like:
> >> "pgbench_accounts is missing, you need to do initialization (\"pgbench
> >> -i\") in database \"%s\"\n"?  Feel free to propose something else on
> >> similar lines?  If possible, I want to convey this information in a
> single
> >> sentence.
> >>
> >> How about, "pgbench_accounts is missing, initialize (\"pgbench -i\") in
> > database \"%s\"\n"?
>
> I think that we should not presume too much about the solution: perhaps
> the user did not specify the right database or host and it has nothing to
> do with initialization.
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> "pgbench_accounts is missing, perhaps you need to initialize (\"pgbench
> -i\") in database \"%s\"\n"
>
> The two sentences approach has the logic of "error" and a separate "hint"
> which is often used.
>

+1 for error and hint separation.


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Regards,
Rafia Sabih