Re: warning message in standby

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-12T01:19:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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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