On Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:59 am, Peter Lang wrote: > I'm running pg_dump 7.3.4...<snip>...does anyone > have any suggestions on another method to confirm whether or not > the db was successfully dumped? > > BTW I'm running under Win2k using Cygwin.
Normally you can check the exit status of the command. In bash you might use: pg_dump..... if [ $? -ne 0 ] then # report the error fi Don't know if there are any problems getting the exit status in cygwin, though. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
