> If you were to rewrite those paragraphs or make them more precise, how
> would you actually shape your suggestions?  I personally quite like the
> current formulations, but I am rather used to it to be honest.
> --
> Michael

Yep, I am for make them more precise. Now this paragraphs describe PostgreSQL 
and bash behavior  for users of PostgreSQL and may be they are good in this. 
But for a script or application programmer must be described not only behavior 
of PostgreSQL, but also precisely described the program interface. For 
instance, aws cli utility, that I used for my archive and restore commands 
sometimes return 255 code, for instance, in a case of network fault to connect 
to S3 (object get command). And I was surprised that the PostgreSQL suddenly 
stoped in such case, there was nothing in documentation about this.  So 
explicitly describing behavior of PostgreSQL in terms of script returning codes 
will be useful for script programmes.

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