Re: Badly designed error reporting code in controldata_utils.c

Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> On 03/06/2016 05:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That's much better, but is there a reason you're using exit(2)
>> and not exit(EXIT_FAILURE) ?

> Only because I was trying to stick with what was originally in
> src/bin/pg_controldata/pg_controldata.c

Meh. It looks to me like the standard way to handle this
for code in src/common/ is exit(EXIT_FAILURE).

regards, tom lane