Re: confusing message about archive failures

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>> When archive_command fails three times, it prints this message into the
>> logs:
>>
>> "transaction log file \"%s\" could not be archived: too many failures"
>>
>> This leaves it open what happens next.  What will actually happen is
>> that it will usually try again after 60 seconds or so, but the message
>> indicates something much more fatal than that.
>>
>> Could we rephrase this a little bit to make it less dramatic, like
>>
>> "... too many failures, will try again later"
>>
>> ?
>
>
> +1  I've found the current message alarming/confusing as well.  But I don't
> really understand the logic behind bursting the attempts, 3 of them one
> second apart, then sleeping 57 seconds, in the first place.

Same.  By now I am numb, but when I was first rolling out archives
ages ago the message was cause for more much alarm than was indicated.