Re: [PORTS] Solaris - psql returns 0 instead of 1 for file not found.

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.bugs,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A patch has been applied and this will be fixed in 8.0.4 and 8.1beta3.

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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Monday 19 September 2005 14:01, Clark, Andrew wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've found the when psql is used with the -f flag and the specified file
> > doesn't exist the rc value is 0.
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > SunOS bld 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
> >
> > $ psql -V
> > psql (PostgreSQL) 8.0.2
> >
> > $ ls foo
> > foo: No such file or directory
> >
> > $ psql -f foo
> > foo: No such file or directory
> >
> > $ echo $?
> > 0
> >
> > However, in the man page for psql it says:
> >
> > EXIT STATUS
> >      psql returns 0 to the shell if it finished normally, 1 if  a
> >      fatal  error  of  its  own  (out  of memory, file not found)
> >      occurs, ...
> >
> > I'm assuming this is the same with other platforms, but I only use
> > PostgreSQL on Solaris.
> >
> > Has this been fix in 8.0.3?
> >
> 
> Redirecting to -bugs since I've confirmed this behavior on Slackware Linux 10 
> with psql version 8.1beta1 and there does seem to be something wrong with the 
> above situation  (perhaps the man page needs to be reworded?)
> 
> -- 
> Robert Treat
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