Re: more descriptive message for process termination due to max_slot_wal_keep_size

Hi,

On 3/2/22 7:37 AM, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> At Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:29:31 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi<horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
>> So what do you say if I propose the following?
>>
>> LOG: terminating process %d to release replication slot \"%s\"
>> because its restart_lsn %X/%X exceeds the limit %X/%X
>> HINT: You might need to increase max_slot_wal_keep_size.
> This version emits the following message.
>
> [35785:checkpointer] LOG: terminating process 36368 to release replication slot "s1" because its restart_lsn 0/1F000148 exceeds the limit 0/21000000
> [35785:checkpointer] HINT: You might need to increase max_slot_wal_keep_size.

As the hint is to increase max_slot_wal_keep_size, what about reporting
the difference in size (rather than the limit lsn)? Something along
those lines?

[35785:checkpointer] LOG: terminating process 36368 to release replication slot "s1" because its restart_lsn 0/1F000148 exceeds the limit by <NNN MB>.

Regards,

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