Re: log messages for archive recovery progress

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga(at)uptime(dot)jp> wrote:
>
>> However, I'm a bit afraid that it will confuse DBA if we use
>> "restored" under the pg_xlog replay context, because we have
>> already used "restored" that means a WAL file as successfully
>> "copied" (not "replayed") from archive directory into pg_xlog
>> directory under the archive recovery context.
>>
>> So, to determine the status of copying WAL files from
>> archive directory, I think we can use "restored", or
>> "could not restore" on failure.
>>
>> And to determine the status of replaying WAL files
>> in pg_xlog directory (even if a WAL is copied from archive),
>> we have to use "recover" or "replay".
>
> Agreed. I can change "restored" to "using", so we have two message types
>
> LOG:  restored log file "000000080000000000000047" from archive
> LOG:  using pre-existing log file "000000080000000000000047" from pg_xlog

using seems pretty fuzzy to me. replaying?

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