confusing message about archive failures

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

When archive_command fails three times, it prints this message into the
logs:

"transaction log file \"%s\" could not be archived: too many failures"

This leaves it open what happens next. What will actually happen is
that it will usually try again after 60 seconds or so, but the message
indicates something much more fatal than that.

Could we rephrase this a little bit to make it less dramatic, like

"... too many failures, will try again later"

?

+1 I've found the current message alarming/confusing as well. But I don't
really understand the logic behind bursting the attempts, 3 of them one
second apart, then sleeping 57 seconds, in the first place.

Cheers,

Jeff

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

When archive_command fails three times, it prints this message into the
logs:

"transaction log file \"%s\" could not be archived: too many failures"

This leaves it open what happens next. What will actually happen is
that it will usually try again after 60 seconds or so, but the message
indicates something much more fatal than that.

Could we rephrase this a little bit to make it less dramatic, like

"... too many failures, will try again later"

?

+1 I've found the current message alarming/confusing as well. But I don't
really understand the logic behind bursting the attempts, 3 of them one
second apart, then sleeping 57 seconds, in the first place.

Same. By now I am numb, but when I was first rolling out archives
ages ago the message was cause for more much alarm than was indicated.

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