Re: Fix for pg_upgrade status display

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2012-12-06T17:53:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas escribió:
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Pg_upgrade displays file names during copy and database names during
> > dump/restore.  Andrew Dunstan identified three bugs:
> >
> > *  long file names were being truncated to 60 _leading_ characters, which
> > often do not change for long file names
> >
> > *  file names were truncated to 60 characters in log files
> >
> > *  carriage returns were being output to log files
> >
> > The attached patch fixes these --- it prints 60 _trailing_ characters to
> > the status display, and full path names without carriage returns to log
> > files.
> 
> This might be a dumb question, but why limit it to 60 characters at
> all instead of, say, MAXPGPATH?

I think this should be keyed off the terminal width, actually, no?  The
whole point of this is to overwrite the same line over and over, right?

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