On Mon, 2021-03-15 at 17:32 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> We explicitly document that people can switch the WAL level and restart
> to do bulk data loads faster, and there's certainly no shortage of
> discussion (including what prompted this thread..) about doing exactly
> that. Adding more documentation around that would certainly be good,
> as would changing this:
>
> ereport(WARNING,
> (errmsg("WAL was generated with wal_level=minimal, data may be missing"),
> errhint("This happens if you temporarily set wal_level=minimal without taking
> a new base backup.")));
>
> into a PANIC instead of a WARNING.
There is a patch in the commitfest that does exactly that (except it
uses ERROR rather than PANIC):
https://postgr.es/m/osbpr01mb4888cbe1da08818fd2d90ed8ed...@osbpr01mb4888.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
