Re: Command tags in create/drop scripts

On 5/31/07, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> The messages output by the "scripts" always seemed unnecessary to me, e.g
> .,
>
> $ createdb foo
> CREATE DATABASE
>
> A Unix program (hi Magnus) shouldn't need to say anything if the requested
> action succeeded.
>
> I believe the history of this output is actually that these scripts simply
> used to call psql and no one really questioned why the output should be
> this
> way. There are also some inconsistencies, e.g., createlang doesn't output
> anything, and createuser outputs CREATE ROLE.
>
> I would just remove all this, but I suppose this will be controversial?

Can it me made to return an integer like most UNIX commands do? This helps
immensely when writing shell scripts.

Thanks!