> On 18 Jul 2023, at 18:04, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@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