Re: pg_dump failed with error code 255, but I don't see why

On 9/22/22 09:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
>> v9.6.2.23
>> I always run pg_dump with the --verbose option, and the bash script echos
>> $?, so there's a 25,664 line log file for me to examine which explicitly
>> shows the return code.
> A quick search of the 9.6 pg_dump source code shows that it only
> ever calls exit() with values 0 or 1.  255 would have to be coming
> from some outside factor.  You sure your shell script isn't
> misbehaving and corrupting the reported return code?

Good to know.  The RC might be from ssh (the actual command being "ssh 
postgres@HOSTNAME pg_dump ...".

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