Chris Hoover <revoohc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Silly question, but in a shell script, what is the best way to check for a > pg_dump problem? I'm working on reworking our backup methodology, and want > to make sure that if pg_dump can't dump a db, we page the on call db. Does > it return any sort of exit code indicating it was not successful dumping a > database? pg_dump should return nonzero exit code on failure. (At least in recent releases ... not sure about how far back that's been done consistently.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
