Re: Move WAL warning

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-02T17:00:42Z
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 17:43, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 02.02.2011 16:36, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> When running pg_basebackup with -x to include all transaction log, the
>> server will still throw a warning about xlog archiving if it's not
>> enabled - that is completely irrelevant since pg_basebackup has
>> included it already (and if it was gone, the base backup step itself
>> will fail - actual error and not warning).
>>
>> This patch moves the warning from do_pg_base_backup to pg_base_backup,
>> so it still shows when using the explicit function calls, but goes
>> away when using pg_basebackup.
>
> For the sake of consistency, how about moving the "pg_stop_backup complete,
> all required WAL segments have been archived" notice too?

Well, it goes out as a NOTICE, so by default it doesn't show.. But
yeah, for code-consistency it makes sense. Like so, then.

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