From 5c3532876f8360df10692baf77a0b79c41ee001e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:13:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backpatch error message fix from
 81f6bbe8ade8c90f23f9286ca9ca726d3e0e310f

Without this, pg_basebackup doesn't tell you why it failed when for example
there is a file in the data directory that the backend doesn't have
permissions to read.
---
 src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
index e9fb2cc08dc..472df3a1fbf 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
@@ -931,8 +931,8 @@ BaseBackup(void)
 	res = PQgetResult(conn);
 	if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK)
 	{
-		fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not get WAL end position from server\n"),
-				progname);
+		fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not get WAL end position from server: %s"),
+				progname, PQerrorMessage(conn));
 		disconnect_and_exit(1);
 	}
 	if (PQntuples(res) != 1)