Re: pg_archivecleanup bug

On 18 March 2014 15:50, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sure. Just wanted to make sure it's a conscious, explicit choice to do so.

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