On 18 March 2014 15:50, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@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. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers