Re: pg_archivecleanup bug

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_archivecleanup bug
Date: 2014-03-18 15:50:42
Message-ID: CA+Tgmob0GRDePNpv65EXxkBZKY8sKsxGFGPC=wBGo6GriX09WA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Given the above, this means we've run for about 7 years without a
> reported issue on this. If we are going to "make this better" by
> actually having it throw errors in places that didn't throw errors
> before, are we sure that is going to make people happier? The archive
> cleanup isn't exactly critical in most cases, so dynamic errors don't
> matter much.

We report errors returned by system calls in many other places. I
can't see why this place should be any different.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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