Erik Jones <erik@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Basically I need a way for my script to know if it needs to > abort because there were issues with the dump before it follows > through with the drop db... Well, just checking the exit status from pg_dump ought to give you at least a go/no-go indicator. If you want to be significantly more paranoid, you could try the theory that *any* output to stderr is indicative of a problem. regards, tom lane
