Re: pg_basebackup and replication slots

On 7/1/15 8:37 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> (If you're looking at the patch and wondering why there is no code to
>> actually do anything with the replication slot, that's because the code
>> that does the WAL streaming is already aware of replication slots
>> because of the pg_receivexlog functionality that it also serves. So all
>> that needs to be done is set replication_slot.)
>
> This is cool to see this patch taking shape.
>
> + my ($stdout, $stderr);
> + run [ 'psql', '-X', '-A', '-t', '-q', '-d', $dbname, '-f', '-' ],
> '<', \$sql, '>', \$stdout, '2>', \$stderr or die;
> + chomp $stdout;
> + return $stdout;
>
> Could it be possible to chomp and return $stderr as well here? It
> seems useful to me to perform sanity checks after calling psql.

Sure, makes sense.