Re: archive_command failures report confusing exit status

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 17:27 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2007 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > I figured it would make sense if pgarch.c used the same mechanism that
> > > postmaster.c uses to report the various variants of regular and signal
> > > exits.
> >
> > Hmm. Getting rid of the "(PID 0)" is going to be a mess enough for
> > translations that I think it is worth pgarch.c having its own routine
> > for this. Furthermore I think the detailed archive command should be
> > reported in an errdetail() field, which makes it even farther off.
>
> Better patch.

Looks much easier to understand.

I prefer archive_command = ... for the errdetail though. The commands
can be quite long so the extra words don't really add anything, plus
they require translation.

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