Re: Make error messages about WAL segment size more consistent

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-08-28T13:26:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.




Commits

  1. Make error messages about WAL segment size more consistent