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Re: pg_upgrade --logfile option documentation

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-01T13:45:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Any ideas about improving the error reporting more generally, so that
>> when reloading the dump fails, the user can easily see what went
>> belly-up, even if they didn't use -l?
>
> The only idea I have is to write the psql log to a temporary file and
> report the last X lines from the file in case of failure.  Does that
> help?

Why not just redirect stdout but not stderr?  If there are error
messages, surely we want the user to just see those.

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Robert Haas
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