Re: pg_archivecleanup bug

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Given the above, this means we've run for about 7 years without a
> reported issue on this. If we are going to "make this better" by
> actually having it throw errors in places that didn't throw errors
> before, are we sure that is going to make people happier? The archive
> cleanup isn't exactly critical in most cases, so dynamic errors don't
> matter much.

We report errors returned by system calls in many other places.  I
can't see why this place should be any different.

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