Re: pg_dump silently fails

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Is SELinux in enforcement mode, and if so does turning it off change
> >> things?
>
> > Should we check for a buggy SELinux and report a meaningful error
> > message on failure?
>
> How you intend to do that, exactly?  The bug is that it won't let you
> write on /dev/tty, which puts a pretty severe crimp on *any* reporting.
>
> (This is not as insane as it sounds: it's a reasonable security
> restriction for a daemon process.  The error in older SELinux policy
> files is that they think all the Postgres executables are daemons, not
> only the postmaster.)

Throw a message to stderr saying something about SELinux.

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