Re: small pg_basebackup display bug

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 01:20:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
> >> That would make such a truncation less frequent, and after all a truncated display is not
> >> particular useful.
>
> > Agreed - it's useful during testing, but not in a typical production
> > use. It might actually be more useful if it's truncated in in the
> > other end (keeping the last 30 instead of the first 30 chars)
>
> +1 for truncating from the left. I think pg_upgrade already does that
> in its progress messages.

Yes, it does in the current git tree.

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