On Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:59 am, Peter Lang wrote:
> I'm running pg_dump 7.3.4...<snip>...does anyone
> have any suggestions on another method to confirm whether or not
> the db was successfully dumped?
>
> BTW I'm running under Win2k using Cygwin.
Normally you can check the exit status of the command. In bash you
might use:
pg_dump.....
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
# report the error
fi
Don't know if there are any problems getting the exit status in
cygwin, though.
Cheers,
Steve
