Re: confusing message about archive failures

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> When archive_command fails three times, it prints this message into the
> logs:
>
> "transaction log file \"%s\" could not be archived: too many failures"
>
> This leaves it open what happens next. What will actually happen is
> that it will usually try again after 60 seconds or so, but the message
> indicates something much more fatal than that.
>
> Could we rephrase this a little bit to make it less dramatic, like
>
> "... too many failures, will try again later"
>
> ?
>

+1 I've found the current message alarming/confusing as well. But I don't
really understand the logic behind bursting the attempts, 3 of them one
second apart, then sleeping 57 seconds, in the first place.

Cheers,

Jeff