Re: pg_upgrade: Improve invalid option handling

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:34:36PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> +	if ((log_opts.internal = fopen_priv(INTERNAL_LOG_FILE, "a")) == NULL)
> +		pg_fatal("could not write to log file \"%s\"\n", INTERNAL_LOG_FILE);
> 
> While we’re at it, should we change this to “could not open log file” to make
> the messaging more consistent across the utilities (pg_basebackup and psql both
> use “could not open”)?

I would suggest "could not open file \"%s\": %s" instead with a proper
strerror().
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Michael