Re: [PoC] configurable out of disk space elog level - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2022-11-17 14:40:02 +0300, Maxim Orlov wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 20:41, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > that aside, we can't do catalog accesses in all kinds of environments that
> > this currently is active in - most importantly it's affecting the startup
> > process. We don't do catalog accesses in the startup process, and even if
> > we
> > were to do so, we couldn't unconditionally because the catalog might not
> > even
> > be consistent at this point (nor is it guaranteed that the wal_level even
> > allows to access catalogs during recovery).
> >
> Yep, that is why I do use in get_tablespace_elevel:
> +       /*
> +        * Use GUC level only in normal mode.
> +        */
> +       if (!IsNormalProcessingMode())
> +               return ERROR;
> 
> Anyway, I appreciate the opinion, thank you!

The startup process is in normal processing mode.