From 521f0458dcd7bb28636250cdfce9b1a3020cff4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:14:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make failure to open psql's --log-file fatal.

Commit 344cdff2c made failure to open the target of --output fatal.
For consistency, the --log-file switch should behave similarly.
Like the previous commit, back-patch to 9.5 but no further.

Daniel Verite
---
 src/bin/psql/startup.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/startup.c b/src/bin/psql/startup.c
index 7af38fbab0a..17fb943dfab 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/startup.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/startup.c
@@ -287,8 +287,11 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	{
 		pset.logfile = fopen(options.logfilename, "a");
 		if (!pset.logfile)
+		{
 			fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not open log file \"%s\": %s\n"),
 					pset.progname, options.logfilename, strerror(errno));
+			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (!options.no_psqlrc)
-- 
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