On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:05:49AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
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> * Retry immediately with no sleep
> * If that fails, sleep for 1s and retry again
> * Keep repeating every 1s
> * Die after 10 or 50 or something.

No, I like the user-specified sleep. I know that on some busy systems, trying 
every second is not optimal. As Jon says, I don't think we should stop either.

> +1 This makes sense. Also, the --retry option should no longer be needed, 
> right?

Right. Because any other non-fatal error that might need retry should 
be handled internally as well.

> We could add a test to run only on 8.4+ that mimics it using PL/pgSQL:
> 
> david=# \set VERBOSITY verbose
> david=# DO $$BEGIN RAISE EXCEPTION 'Serialization error'
>         USING ERRCODE = 'serialization_failure'; END $$;
> ERROR:  40001: Serialization error
> LOCATION:  exec_stmt_raise, pl_exec.c:2840

Heh, nice!


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