Re: pg_dump why no indicator of completion

On 5/1/23 08:07, Scott Ribe wrote:
>> On May 1, 2023, at 7:01 AM, richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Which, running more than one command from the shell prompt in a single logon session, or not emitting an exit message?
> Running multiple long-lived processes in a shell prompt, whose exit values you care about, running in the background,

Exactly.  Cron is your friend!!!

> along with "a myriad of other commands", presumably short-lived, in the interim, then looking through "the flotsam and jetsam" for a success message. Sounds like a total mess. Put your important long-lived processesin their own sessions. Or, if you must interleave them, wrap the call to pg_dump in a simple conditional.

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