Re: Make error messages about WAL segment size more consistent

Hi Peter,

> This started out as a small patch to make pg_controldata use the logging
> API instead of printf statements, and then it became a larger patch to
> adjust error and warning messages about invalid WAL segment sizes
> (IsValidWalSegSize()) across the board.

Thanks for working on this.

> I went through and made the
> primary messages more compact and made the detail messages uniform. In
> initdb.c and pg_resetwal.c, I use the newish option_parse_int() to
> simplify some of the option parsing. For the backend GUC
> wal_segment_size, I added a GUC check hook to do the verification
> instead of coding it in bootstrap.c. This might be overkill, but that
> way the check is in the right place and it becomes more self-documenting.

I reviewed the code and tested it on Linux and MacOS with Autotools
and Meson. The patch LGTM.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev