The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 3503
Logged by: Justin Hibbits
Email address: justin.hibbits@baesystems.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.2.4
Operating system: Linux
Description: Benchmark scripts broken
Details:

It appears that the benchmark script src/test/bench/create.sh is broken, in
that it tries to execute "postgres -D${1} postgres", which is invalid
according to postgres.

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Justin Hibbits wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 3503
> Logged by: Justin Hibbits
> Email address: justin.hibbits@baesystems.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2.4
> Operating system: Linux
> Description: Benchmark scripts broken
> Details:
>
> It appears that the benchmark script src/test/bench/create.sh is broken, in
> that it tries to execute "postgres -D${1} postgres", which is invalid
> according to postgres.

Fixed in several place, e.g.:

echo "drop database bench" | postgres -D"$1" postgres > /dev/null

This fix will be in 8.3.

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