Re: nicer error out in initdb? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: nicer error out in initdb?
Date
Msg-id 18054.1136476484@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to nicer error out in initdb?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> If we find at the bottom of test_config_settings() that we have not been
> able to run successfully at all (i.e. status != 0 at about line 1183 of
> initdb.c) is there any point in continuing? Don't we know that we are
> bound to fail at the template1 creation stage? Maybe we should just exit
> nicely when we do know this.

Nope: since we've been suppressing stderr, "exit nicely" here would
translate as "refuse to provide any information about the problem".
The existing behavior is just fine.
        regards, tom lane


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