Re: set_ps_display during recovery

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: set_ps_display during recovery
Date: 2007-09-30 17:17:19
Message-ID: 8276.1191172639@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 11:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I like "fetching" or "retrieving" for
>> the activity of getting a WAL segment from an archive, because in cases
>> where the activity takes long enough to be noticeable, it's probably
>> because you are physically getting the file from someplace else.

> "Waiting for" sounds best I think. It might be waiting for a manual tape
> mount for example, not just a warm standby. If the wait isn't very long
> it won't hardly notice anyway.

Hmm ... I guess that's OK, because after all we *are* waiting for the
restore_command to do something. Will make it so.

regards, tom lane

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