> On 24 Feb 2022, at 13:58, Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
>> One argument against a backpatch is that this would be disruptive with
>> tools that parse and analyze the output generated by pgbench. Fabien,
>> don't you have some tools and/or wrappers doing exactly that?
>
> Yep, I like to "| cut -d' ' -fx" and other "line.split(' ')" or whatever.
>
> I think that the break of typographical rules is intentional to allow such
> simplistic low-level stream handling through pipes or scripts. I'd prefer
> that the format is not changed. Maybe a comment could be added to explain the
> reason behind it.
That doesn't sound like an overwhelmingly convincing argument to print some
messages with 'X %' and others with 'X%'.
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