Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Check compulsory parameters in recovery.conf in standby_mode, per - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 15:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> >                      (errmsg("recovery command file \"%s\" specified neither primary_conninfo nor
restore_command",
> > -                            RECOVERY_COMMAND_FILE)));
> > +                            RECOVERY_COMMAND_FILE),
> > +                     errdetail("The database server will regularly poll the pg_xlog subdirectory to check for
filesplaced there.")));
 
> 
> That's not a "detail", as it has nothing to do with details of the error
> condition.  It might pass muster as a "hint", though I'm not entirely
> sure what the point is.

The server sits around doing nothing and the point of the message is to
explain why that is and give a hint as to what might change that
situation, if anything.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com