Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:06:17AM -0500, Phil Frost wrote: > > Hrm...I haven't used windows for a while now, but isn't there an > > option on all shortcuts to command-line programs to make the shell > > pause on exit? It is something like, right click on shortcut, select > > 'properties', uncheck 'close shell on exit'. It would seem this would > > solve the problem of not being able to see errors, while also not > > adding a pause for programs which execute psql.bat directly. > > Yes, that is exactly the point -it would be very annoying in all other > cases, as Bruce pointed out. > > I guess another option would be to add a commandline option to psql to > pause on error, but I don't think that's going to fly ;-)
I just ran a test on Unix and found psql exits with '2' if the password fails. In fact, looking at the psql sources I see: #ifndef EXIT_SUCCESS #define EXIT_SUCCESS 0 #endif #ifndef EXIT_FAILURE #define EXIT_FAILURE 1 #endif #define EXIT_BADCONN 2 #define EXIT_USER 3 Notice EXIT_BADCONN. So, what if we call psql from a batch file, and check for a '2' exit status, and then issue a pause for only that case? -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly