[ argh, hit send a bit too fast ]
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Also, how often does it actually happen that "random libraries linked
> into the backend emit messages on stderr"? Is this really something
> that we need to pay so much attention to, rather than just let them go
> on stderr and have them be redirected?
Yes, this is an ABSOLUTE deal-breaker. To name two reasons:
* glibc tells about various malloc-arena-corruption problems on stderr.
* On a lot of systems you will not find out anything useful about dynamic-linker problems if you don't capture stderr.
regards, tom lane
