Re: pg_upgrade: Improve invalid option handling

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade: Improve invalid option handling
Date: 2019-06-18 08:25:44
Message-ID: 09070252-C74F-4831-B7BD-2949C45C856E@yesql.se
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> On 18 Jun 2019, at 10:15, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:34:36PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> + if ((log_opts.internal = fopen_priv(INTERNAL_LOG_FILE, "a")) == NULL)
>> + pg_fatal("could not write to log file \"%s\"\n", INTERNAL_LOG_FILE);
>>
>> While we’re at it, should we change this to “could not open log file” to make
>> the messaging more consistent across the utilities (pg_basebackup and psql both
>> use “could not open”)?
>
> I would suggest "could not open file \"%s\": %s" instead with a proper
> strerror().

Correct, that matches how pg_basebackup and psql does it.

cheers ./daniel

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