Re: Upgrading postmaster's log messages about bind/listen errors

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading postmaster's log messages about bind/listen errors
Date: 2017-03-14 16:50:09
Message-ID: 29761.1489510209@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
>> I think that what would actually be of some use nowadays is a LOG-level
>> message emitted if the wraparound *isn't* activated immediately at start.
>> But otherwise, we should follow the rule that silence is golden.

> Concretely, how about the attached? It preserves the original
> "protections are now enabled" message at LOG level, but emits it only
> when oldestOffsetKnown becomes true *after* startup. Meanwhile, if
> oldestOffsetKnown is still not true at the conclusion of TrimMultiXact,
> then it emits a new LOG message about "protections are not active".

I realized that the second of these is not necessary because it's
redundant with the message about "MultiXact member wraparound protections
are disabled because oldest checkpointed MultiXact %u does not exist on
disk". Pushed without that.

regards, tom lane

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