Hello Tatsuo-san,

I found an error message in pgbench is quite confusing.

pgbench -S -M extended -c 1 -T 30 test
query mode (-M) should be specified before any transaction scripts (-f or -b)

Since there's no -f or -b option is specified, users will be
confused.

Indeed.

Actually the error occurs because pgbench implicitly introduces a built in script for -S. To eliminate the confusion, I think the error message should be fixed like this:

The idea is that -S/-N documentations say that it is just a shortcut for -b, but the explanation (eg --help) is too far away.

query mode (-M) should be specified before transaction type (-S or -N) or any transaction scripts (-f or -b)

I would suggest to make it even shorter, see attached:

query mode (-M) should be specified before any transaction scripts (-f, -b, -S or -N).

I'm wondering whether it could/should be "any transaction script". My English level does not allow to decide.

--
Fabien.
diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index 4d364a1..9e41c07 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -3898,7 +3898,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 				benchmarking_option_set = true;
 				if (num_scripts > 0)
 				{
-					fprintf(stderr, "query mode (-M) should be specified before any transaction scripts (-f or -b)\n");
+					fprintf(stderr, "query mode (-M) should be specified before any transaction scripts (-f, -b, -S or -N)\n");
 					exit(1);
 				}
 				for (querymode = 0; querymode < NUM_QUERYMODE; querymode++)
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