Re: Nicer error when connecting to standby with hot_standby=off

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:07 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-Mar-09, James Coleman wrote:
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> > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:47 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2021-Mar-07, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 3:39 PM Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Great, so we're agreed on the messages to emit. James, are you updating
> > > your patch, considering Fujii's note about the new signal and pmstate
> > > that need to be added?
> >
> > Perhaps I'm missing something, but I was under the impression the
> > "prefer the former message" meant we were not adding a new signal and
> > pmstate?
>
> Eh, I read that differently. I was proposing two options for the DETAIL
> line in that case:
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> > DETAIL: Hot standby mode is disabled.
> > or maybe
> > DETAIL: Consistent state has not yet been reached, and hot standby mode is disabled.
>
> and both Fujii and Magnus said they prefer the first option over the
> second option. I don't read any of them as saying that they would like
> to do something else (including not doing anything).
>
> Maybe I misinterpreted them?

That is indeed what I meant as well.

The reference to "the former" as being the "first or the two new
options", not the "old option". That is, "DETAIL: Hot standby mode is
disabled.".

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