pgsql: In initdb, ensure stdout/stderr buffering behavior is what we ex - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: In initdb, ensure stdout/stderr buffering behavior is what we ex
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Msg-id E1WkkFr-0000bV-6L@gemulon.postgresql.org
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In initdb, ensure stdout/stderr buffering behavior is what we expect.

Since this program may print to either stdout or stderr, the relative
ordering of its messages depends on the buffering behavior of those files.
Force stdout to be line-buffered and stderr to be unbuffered, ensuring
that the behavior will match standard Unix interactive behavior, even
when stdout and stderr are rerouted to a file.

Per complaint from Tomas Vondra.  The particular case he pointed out is
new in HEAD, but issues of the same sort could arise in any branch with
other error messages, so back-patch to all branches.

I'm unsure whether we might not want to do this in other client programs
as well.  For the moment, just fix initdb.

Branch
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REL8_4_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/52d2f887d21a3649ea573b31f3a1b9dd5b68ea85

Modified Files
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src/bin/initdb/initdb.c |    9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)


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