Re: make pg_ctl more friendly

Hi Nathan,

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> + POSTMASTER_RECOVERY_SHUTDOWN,
>
> Perhaps this should be POSTMASTER_SHUTDOWN_IN_RECOVERY to match the state
> in the control file?

Agreed

>
> + case POSTMASTER_RECOVERY_SHUTDOWN:
> + print_msg(_("PITR shutdown\n"));
> + print_msg(_("update configuration for startup again if needed\n"));
> + break;
>
> I'm not sure I agree that this is a substantially friendlier message. From
> a quick skim of the thread, it seems like you want to avoid sending a scary
> error message if Postgres was intentionally shut down while in recovery.
> If I got this particular message, I think I would be worried that something
> went wrong during my point-in-time restore, and I'd be scrambling to figure
> out what configuration this message wants me to update.
>
> If I'm correctly interpreting the intent here, it might be worth fleshing
> out the messages a bit more. For example, instead of "PITR shutdown,"
> perhaps we could say "shut down while in recovery."

Make sense. Fixed. See V4

> And maybe we should
> point to the specific settings in the latter message.

I've changed this latter message to:
update recovery target settings for startup again if needed

What do you think?

>
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