On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 at 11:54, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Yeah, that is sort of the inverse problem. I think those are there
> to ensure that the text appears on a fresh line even if the current
> line has transient status on it. We could get rid of those perhaps
> if we teach pg_log_v to remember whether it ended the last output
> with a newline or not, and then put out a leading newline only if
> necessary, rather than hard-wiring one into the message texts.
Is the problem that pg_upgrade doesn't know what the utilities it's
calling are outputting to the same terminal?
Another thing I wonder is if during development and testing there
might have been more output from utilities or even the backend going
on that are
not happening now.
--
greg
