Re: warning message in standby

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: warning message in standby
Date: 2010-06-12 01:19:19
Message-ID: 201006120119.o5C1JJr11129@momjian.us
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Robert Haas wrote:
> > If my streaming replication stops working, I want to know about it as
> > soon as possible. WARNING just doesn't cut it.
> >
> > This needs some better thought.
> >
> > If we PANIC, then surely it will PANIC again when we restart unless we
> > do something. So we can't do that. But we need to do something better
> > than
> >
> > WARNING there is a bug that will likely cause major data loss
> > HINT you'll be sacked if you miss this message
>
> +1. I was making this same argument (less eloquently) upthread.
> I particularly like the errhint().

I am wondering what action would be most likely to get the
administrator's attention.

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