Frank,
As I've mentioned in another response I typically run pg_dump as follows:
nohup pg_dump {various settings} > something.log 2>&1 &
rik.
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 6:12 AM Frank Lanitz <frank(at)frank(dot)uvena(dot)de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 01.05.23 02:18, richard coleman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been working with pg_dump and one thing that's always struck me as
> > strange is that there never seems to be an indication in the log that
> > the pg_dump process completed successfully.
>
> I don't think it's needed.
>
> How are you running pg_dump? There is a return code 0 if successful or
> != 0 in case of an error.
>
> Cheer,
> Frank
>