pgsql: Improve reporting of error situations in find_other_exec().

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Improve reporting of error situations in find_other_exec().
Date: 2012-07-27 23:32:07
Message-ID: E1Suu0t-0004Oj-RQ@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Improve reporting of error situations in find_other_exec().

This function suppressed any stderr output from the called program, which
is unnecessary in the normal case and unhelpful in error cases. It also
gave a rather opaque message along the lines of "fgets failure: Success"
in case the called program failed to return anything on stdout. Since
we've seen multiple reports of people not understanding what's wrong when
pg_ctl reports this, improve the message.

Back-patch to all active branches.

Branch
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REL9_2_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/62d69045dd1c41bbcd8a7f78c7a4170e8381ca76

Modified Files
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src/port/exec.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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