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
