Greetings,
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > * Aleš Zelený (zeleny.ales@gmail.com) wrote:
> >> But recovery on replica failed to proceed WAL file
> >> 0000000100000FED00000039 with log message: " invalid contrecord length
> >> 1956 at FED/38FFE208".
>
> > Err- you've drawn the wrong conclusion from that message (and you're
> > certainly not alone- it's a terrible message and we should really have a
> > HINT there or something).
>
> Yeah, those messages are all pretty ancient, from when WAL was new and not
> to be trusted much. Perhaps the thing to do is move the existing info
> into DETAIL and make the primary message be something like "reached
> apparent end of WAL stream".
Yes, +1 on that.
Thanks,
Stephen
