Re: psql ignores failure to open -o target file

"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> This seems surprising to me: any other program in the world would do
>>> exit(1) after discovering that it couldn't write where it had been
>>> told to. Should we change this?

>> I assume this is a rhetorical question.

> How about this one: do we change this behavior in the back branches?

I don't think we should change this in stable branches. I would vote
for fixing it in 9.5, though, mainly because the fix is going to interact
with the extended-mode-wrap fixes I'm also working on.

regards, tom lane