pg_dump why no indicator of completion

[richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, 

I've been working with pg_dump and one thing that's always struck me as strange is that there never seems to be an indication in the log that the pg_dump process completed successfully.

For example, I've been running a bunch of backups with pg_dump in directory mode with multiple jobs.  When I come back several hours later there are no pg_dump processes running.  The log is filled with:

dumping contents of foo

finished item 123456 of TABLE DATA bar

etc.

Other than trying to restore the multi terabyte database somewhere else is there any way to know that it actually finished successfully?

Why doesn't pg_dump add a line in the output like:

pg_backup finished

when it's completed successfully? 

This seems like a terrible oversight.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks, 

rik.