On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 15:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> > (errmsg("recovery command file \"%s\"
>> > specified neither primary_conninfo nor restore_command",
>> > -
>> > RECOVERY_COMMAND_FILE)));
>> > + RECOVERY_COMMAND_FILE),
>> > + errdetail("The database server will
>> > regularly poll the pg_xlog subdirectory to check for files placed
>> > there.")));
>>
>> That's not a "detail", as it has nothing to do with details of the error
>> condition. It might pass muster as a "hint", though I'm not entirely
>> sure what the point is.
>
> The server sits around doing nothing and the point of the message is to
> explain why that is and give a hint as to what might change that
> situation, if anything.
Yeah, I think that's good information to provide. But I have to admit
that I too considered suggesting changing it from errdetail to
errhint, so the fact that Tom had the same thought suggests to me that
that's probably better.
...Robert
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