Re: [HACKERS] confusing message about archive failures

2013-04-19 Thread Daniel Farina
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: > 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 w

Re: [HACKERS] confusing message about archive failures

2013-04-17 Thread Jeff Janes
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

[HACKERS] confusing message about archive failures

2013-04-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
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 indicate