Re: Make error messages about WAL segment size more consistent

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Make error messages about WAL segment size more consistent
Date: 2023-08-28 13:26:35
Message-ID: a27be1ad-dc89-65d8-d3d1-8e90ab90675b@eisentraut.org
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On 22.08.23 16:26, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>> This started out as a small patch to make pg_controldata use the logging
>> API instead of printf statements, and then it became a larger patch to
>> adjust error and warning messages about invalid WAL segment sizes
>> (IsValidWalSegSize()) across the board.
>
> Thanks for working on this.
>
>> I went through and made the
>> primary messages more compact and made the detail messages uniform. In
>> initdb.c and pg_resetwal.c, I use the newish option_parse_int() to
>> simplify some of the option parsing. For the backend GUC
>> wal_segment_size, I added a GUC check hook to do the verification
>> instead of coding it in bootstrap.c. This might be overkill, but that
>> way the check is in the right place and it becomes more self-documenting.
>
> I reviewed the code and tested it on Linux and MacOS with Autotools
> and Meson. The patch LGTM.

Thanks, committed.

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