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Re: Use of backup_label not noted in log

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-11-18T18:05:46Z
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Hi,

On 2023-11-18 09:30:01 -0400, David Steele wrote:
> I know this isn't really a bug, but not being able to tell where recovery
> information came from seems like a major omission in the logging.

Yea. I was preparing to forecefully suggest that some monitoring tooling
should verify that new standbys and PITRs needs to check that backup_label was
actually used, just to remember that there's nothing they could realistically
use (using DEBUG1 in production imo isn't realistic).

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Add more LOG messages when starting and ending recovery from a backup