Re: Nicer error when connecting to standby with hot_standby=off

On 2021-Mar-24, Fujii Masao wrote:

> On 2021/03/24 5:59, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > > FATAL:  the database system is starting up
> > > DETAIL:  WAL is being applied to recover from a system crash.
> > > or
> > > DETAIL:  The system is applying WAL to recover from a system crash.
> > > or
> > > DETAIL:  The startup process is applying WAL to recover from a system crash.
> > 
> > I don't think the postmaster has enough context to know if that's
> > actually true.  It just launches the startup process and waits for
> > results.  If somebody saw this during a normal (non-crash) startup,
> > they'd be justifiably alarmed.
> 
> Yes, so logging "the database system is starting up" seems enough to me.

No objection.

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Álvaro Herrera       Valdivia, Chile
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