Re: Make mesage at end-of-recovery less scary. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Make mesage at end-of-recovery less scary.
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Msg-id 20200323194914.novyhczbkqvk4j5x@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Make mesage at end-of-recovery less scary.  (Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>)
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Hi,

On 2020-03-23 10:43:09 -0700, Ashwin Agrawal wrote:
> Plus, I am hoping message will improve for pg_waldump as well?
> Since it reads confusing and every-time have to explain new developer it's
> expected behavior which is annoying.
> 
> pg_waldump: fatal: error in WAL record at 0/1553F70: invalid record length
> at 0/1553FA8: wanted 24, got 0

What would you like to see here? There's inherently a lot less
information about the context in waldump. We can't know whether it's to
be expected that the WAL ends at that point, or whether there was
corruption.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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