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From richard coleman
Subject Re: pg_dump why no indicator of completion
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In response to Re: pg_dump why no indicator of completion  (Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de>)
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Frank, 

As I've mentioned in another response I typically run pg_dump as follows:

nohup pg_dump {various settings} > something.log 2>&1 &

rik.

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 6:12 AM Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de> wrote:
Hello,

On 01.05.23 02:18, richard coleman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been working with pg_dump and one thing that's always struck me as
> strange is that there never seems to be an indication in the log that
> the pg_dump process completed successfully.

I don't think it's needed.

How are you running pg_dump? There is a return code 0 if successful or
!= 0 in case of an error.

Cheer,
Frank

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