Re: testing cvs HEAD - HS/SR - cannot stat

On Thu, February 4, 2010 19:29, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Can we improve the error message?  Right now it's alarming people.  Such as:
>>
>> cannot stat
>> `/var/data1/pg_stuff/dump/replication_archive/000000010000000000000002':
>> End of Log
>
> Not really, it's coming from 'cp'. Not sure if we could capture the
> stderr and somehow decorate the message to make it less alarming.
>
> This isn't really a new problem, PITR has always done that, but I agree
> it's always been a bit clumsy to have those messages in the log.


It was (eventually) clear to me that it was not really a problem,
but only because I was testing anyway :)

I think most people would do what I did: search the documentation
for the string 'No such file or directory' or 'cannot stat'.
(But that produces no mention of this (non-)problem.)

ISTM mentioning in the documentation is good enough.



Erik Rijkers