Re: WALInsertLock tuning

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> One other thought is that I think that this patch might cause a
> user-visible behavior change.  Right now, when you hit the end of
> recovery, you most typically get a message saying - record with zero
> length.  Not always, but often.  If we adopt this approach, you'll get
> a wider variety of error messages there, depending on exactly how the
> new record fails validation.  I dunno if that's important to be worth
> caring about, or not.

Not.

We've never said what the message would be, only that it would fail.

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