Re: psql ignores failure to open -o target file

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>> This seems surprising to me: any other program in the world would do
>>>> exit(1) after discovering that it couldn't write where it had been
>>>> told to. Should we change this?
>
>>> I assume this is a rhetorical question.
>
>> How about this one: do we change this behavior in the back branches?
>
> I don't think we should change this in stable branches. I would vote
> for fixing it in 9.5, though, mainly because the fix is going to interact
> with the extended-mode-wrap fixes I'm also working on.

Oh. I would assume this was an obvious back-patch back to the stone
age. It seems like flagrant bug. Let's revive 7.4 just to fix this.
:-)

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