Re: pg_upgrade: Improve invalid option handling

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-06-14T09:03:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2019-06-13 14:30, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> Why do we need to change pg_fatal() to fprintf() & exit()? It seems to
> me that we can still use pg_fatal() here since we write the message to
> stderr.

It just makes the output more consistent with other tools, e.g.,

old:

pg_upgrade: unrecognized option `--foo'

Try "pg_upgrade --help" for more information.
Failure, exiting

new:

pg_upgrade: unrecognized option `--foo'
Try "pg_upgrade --help" for more information.

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Commits

  1. pg_upgrade: Improve error messages

  2. pg_upgrade: Improve invalid option handling