>Neil Conway
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On the other hand, I was just about to change the wal_debug
behaviour to
> > allow better debugging of PITR features as they're added.
>
> That's a development activity. Enabling the WAL_DEBUG #ifdef by
> default during the 7.5 development cycle would be uncontroversial, I
> think.
Yes that's the best proposal. Can I leave that with you?
> > I think it is very important to be able to put the system fairly
> > easily into debug mode
>
> It is? Why would this be useful for non-development activities?
>
> (It may well be the case that we ought to report more or better
> information about the status of the WAL subsystem; but WAL_DEBUG is
> surely not the right mechanism for emitting information intended for
> an administrator.)
Right again. I guess my proposal amounted to quick-and-dirty logging.
I'll think some more.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs
