Re: Re: Better way of dealing with pgstat wait timeout during buildfarm runs?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2015-01-19 11:28:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> > On 2015-01-19 11:16:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> Possibly we need to improve the wording of that error message then.
>> >> When it was written, we really assumed that it was a can't-happen case
>> >> and so didn't spend much effort on it. Perhaps it should become a
>> >> translatable ereport phrased like "WARNING: using stale statistics
>> >> instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding".
>>
>> > Yes, that seems like a good message improvement.
>>
>> > It's not like making it LOG makes the message invisible...
>>
>> Uh, yes it does. So far as the user is concerned anyway.
>
> Sure, but the log isn't invisible. As mentioned one paragraph above, I
> don't think it's likely to ever be noticed in the client code in the
> cases where it happens in production.

Yes, that is my feeling as well.

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