> On 18 Jul 2023, at 18:04, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes:
>> Looking at the upgrade question in [0] made me realize that we discard
>> potentially useful information for troubleshooting.  When we check if the
>> cluster is properly shut down we might as well include the status from
>> pg_controldata in the errormessage as per the trivial (but yet untested)
>> proposed diff.
> 
>> Is there a reason not to be verbose here as users might copy/paste this 
>> output
>> when asking for help?
> 
> Agreed, but I think you need to chomp the string's trailing newline,
> or it'll look ugly.  You might as well do that further up and remove
> the newlines from the comparison strings, too.

Yeah, the previous diff was mostly a sketch.  The attached strips newline and
makes the comparisons a bit neater in the process due to that.  Will apply this
trivial but seemingly useful change unless objected to.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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