Re: Frontend error logging style

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 02:40:10PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> Having different frontend utilities each invent their own
> slightly-different way of doing this makes it hard to reuse code, and
> hard to understand code. We need to find ways to make it more uniform,
> not just observe that it isn't uniform today and give up.

I agree with this sentiment, but this is a bit more complex than just
calling exit() with pg_log_fatal(), no?  pg_dump likes playing a lot
with its exit_nicely(), meaning that we may want to allow frontends to
plug in callbacks.
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Michael