Re: LSN as a recovery target

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Adrien Nayrat <adrien(dot)nayrat(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Julien Rouhaud <julien(dot)rouhaud(at)dalibo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: LSN as a recovery target
Date: 2016-08-22 15:49:12
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYY_1b-Pbr=QEUn9SoWtLNxPW1CnQ3es9vjUo2sac9dpw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Adrien Nayrat <adrien(dot)nayrat(at)dalibo(dot)com> wrote:
>> As Julien said, there is nothing to notice that error comes from
>> recovery.conf.
>> My fear would be that an user encounters an error like this. Il will be
>> difficult to link to the recovery.conf.
>
> Thinking a bit wider than that, we may want to know such context for
> normal GUC parameters as well, and that's not the case now. Perhaps
> there is actually a reason why that's not done for GUCs, but it seems
> that it would be useful there as well. That would give another reason
> to move all that under the GUC umbrella.

Maybe so, but that's been tried multiple times without success. If
you think an error context is useful here, and I bet it is, I'd say
just add it and be done with it.

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Robert Haas
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