Re: pg_dump "what if?"

Thanks again. I've got it working using the API calls described.

pg_dump does return an exit code of 0 upon success. Does anyone know off
hand what is returned when the process fails?

-Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Shelby Cain [mailto:alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com]
Sent: March 24, 2004 4:30 PM
To: Anony Mous; 'Dustin Sallings'
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump "what if?"

You could spawn pg_dump via CreateProcess and call
WaitForSingleObject() on the handle that CreateProcess
returns in a worker thread. When the Wait() function
returns, you can then call GetExitCodeProcess() on the
same handle to get the process exit code.

Just a thought.

Regards,

Shelby Cain

--- Anony Mous <A(dot)Mous(at)shaw(dot)ca> wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm calling a win32 compiled version of
> pg_dump, which runs
> asynchronously to the rest of my code (sorry I was
> vague in my first
> message). As such, I don't see how I can use the
> return value. My only
> other thought was to check for the existence of the
> file, which would be
> useless if the file represented an incomplete dump.
>
>

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