Re: Replication slots and footguns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Replication slots and footguns
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Msg-id 5320C4E7.1020803@agliodbs.com
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In response to Replication slots and footguns  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Replication slots and footguns  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 03/12/2014 12:34 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Urgh.  That error message looks susceptible to improvement.  How about:
>>> >>
>>> >> replication slot "%s" cannot be dropped because it is currently in use
>> >
>> > I think that'd require duplicating some code between acquire and drop,
>> > but how about "replication slot "%s" is in use by another backend"?
> Sold.

Wait ... before you go further ... I object to dropping the word
"active" from the error message.  The column is called "active", and
that's where a DBA should look; that word needs to stay in the error
message.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com



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