Re: [Gnumed-devel] bootstrap_db

[Karsten Hilbert]

> The natural solution would be to run psql from within the
> Python script via a pipe. But alas, contrary to the man page,
> psql does NOT return an errorlevel of 3 upon receiving an
> format definition error (bad SQL, usually) from the backend.
> Thus the Python script cannot reliably detect whether things
> failed or not (short of parsing the output for "ERROR" which
> is hardly elegant).
Strange. When running from a shell script it does not return
the correct error level. When running from a pipe within
Python it does. ??? Anyways, so this is the current solution.

Karsten
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