Re: Fix for Extra Parenthesis in pgbench progress message

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:58:38PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Let me have a go at fixing it, and if it turns out to be harder
> than I think, I'll revert it instead.

Oops, I was already taking a look at this.  I figured it'd just be
something like the following, although maybe there's a more elegant way.

diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index 40592e62606..b73921c36e3 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -4990,6 +4990,7 @@ initPopulateTable(PGconn *con, const char *table, int64 base,
     for (k = 0; k < total; k++)
     {
         int64       j = k + 1;
+        bool        printed = false;

         init_row(&sql, k);
         if (PQputline(con, sql.data))
@@ -5011,6 +5012,7 @@ initPopulateTable(PGconn *con, const char *table, int64 base,
                             j, total,
                             (int) ((j * 100) / total),
                             table, elapsed_sec, remaining_sec);
+            printed = true;
         }
         /* let's not call the timing for each row, but only each 100 rows */
         else if (use_quiet && (j % 100 == 0))
@@ -5025,6 +5027,7 @@ initPopulateTable(PGconn *con, const char *table, int64 base,
                                 j, total,
                                 (int) ((j * 100) / total),
                                 table, elapsed_sec, remaining_sec);
+                printed = true;

                 /* skip to the next interval */
                 log_interval = (int) ceil(elapsed_sec / LOG_STEP_SECONDS);
@@ -5038,7 +5041,8 @@ initPopulateTable(PGconn *con, const char *table, int64 base,
          */
         if (prev_chars > chars)
             fprintf(stderr, "%*c", prev_chars - chars, ' ');
-        fputc(eol, stderr);
+        if (printed)
+            fputc(eol, stderr);
         prev_chars = chars;
     }

-- 
nathan