Re: Missing newlines in error messages

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Missing newlines in error messages
Date: 2016-12-15 15:45:11
Message-ID: CABUevEzwmv5bvxTiE8nTkL2NLabf-nrXR3LTZn5K3sOvhONyVw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > While poking around the pg_basebackup code, I noticed there are a lot of
> > error messages are missing the \n at the end. Most of them are very
> > unlikely to happen, but in general I believe all error messages we print
> to
> > stderr from those binaries should have a newline at the end.
>
> > Is that wrong? :)
>
> I think you missed the fact that PQerrorMessage's result will already
> end with a newline. So most (not all) of these look OK as they stand.
>

Ha, I knew there was something. But somehow I forgot about that one. I was
wondering why nobody had found it before :)

And yeah, that leaves just the one error that I actually bumped into. I'll
go ahead and apply that one alone then.

Pah. Less coding on jetlag.

Thanks!

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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

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