On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2016-10-17 14:37:05 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> 2) Add an option to pg_xlogdump to be able to output its output to a
>> file. That would be awkward to rely on grabbing the output data from a
>> pipe... On Windows particularly. Thinking about it, would that
>> actually be useful to others? That's not a complicated patch.
>
> Hm? Just redirecting output seems less complicated? And afaik works on
> windows as well?
In the TAP suite STDOUT is already redirect to the log files. Perhaps
we could just do a SELECT FILE; to redirect the output of pg_xlogdump
temporarily into a custom location just for the sake of a test like
that.
--
Michael
