On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > However, outputing this info by default will make it show up in things like > everybodys cronjobs by default. Right now a successful pg_basebackup run > will come out with no output at all, which is how most Unix commands work, > and brings it's own advantages. If we change that people will have to send > all the output to /dev/null, resulting in missing the things that are > actually important in any regard.
I agree with that. I think having this show up in verbose mode is a really good idea - when something just hangs, users don't know what's going on, and that's bad. But showing it all the time seems like a bridge too far. As the postmortem linked above shows, people will think of things like "hey, let's try --verbose mode" when the obvious thing doesn't work. What is really irritating to them is when --verbose mode fails to be, uh, verbose. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
