On 2021/03/24 5:59, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> FATAL: the database system is starting up
>> DETAIL: WAL is being applied to recover from a system crash.
>> or
>> DETAIL: The system is applying WAL to recover from a system crash.
>> or
>> DETAIL: The startup process is applying WAL to recover from a system crash.
>
> I don't think the postmaster has enough context to know if that's
> actually true. It just launches the startup process and waits for
> results. If somebody saw this during a normal (non-crash) startup,
> they'd be justifiably alarmed.
Yes, so logging "the database system is starting up" seems enough to me.
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