On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 11:03 -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > > If we add a message for starting with "backup_label", shouldn't > > we also add a corresponding message for starting from a checkpoint > > found in the control file? If you see that in a problem report, > > you immediately know what is going on. > > Maybe - the reason I hesitate on that is that emitting an additional log > message when starting from a base backup just adds something "once once the > lifetime of a node". Whereas emitting something every start obviously doesn't > impose any limit.
The message should only be shown if PostgreSQL replays WAL, that is, after a crash. That would (hopefully) make it a rare message too. Yours, Laurenz Albe
