Re: Offline enabling/disabling of data checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Banck
Subject Re: Offline enabling/disabling of data checksums
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Msg-id 1552385626.4947.50.camel@credativ.de
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In response to Re: Offline enabling/disabling of data checksums  (Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>)
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Re: Offline enabling/disabling of data checksums
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Hi,


Am Montag, den 11.03.2019, 14:11 +0000 schrieb Sergei Kornilov:
> > if (badblocks > 0)
> >     return 1;
> 
> Small question: why return 1 instead of exit(1)?

I have a feeling it is project policy to return 0 from main(), and
exit(1) if a program aborts with an error.

In the above case, the program finishes more-or-less as intended (no
abort), but due to errors found on the way, does not return with 0.

I don't mind either way and probably exit(1) makes more sense, but I
wanted to explain why it is like that.


Michael

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