Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Aleš Zelený (zeleny.ales@gmail.com) wrote:
>> But recovery on replica failed to proceed WAL file
>> 0000000100000FED00000039 with log message: " invalid contrecord length
>> 1956 at FED/38FFE208".
> Err- you've drawn the wrong conclusion from that message (and you're
> certainly not alone- it's a terrible message and we should really have a
> HINT there or something).
Yeah, those messages are all pretty ancient, from when WAL was new and not
to be trusted much. Perhaps the thing to do is move the existing info
into DETAIL and make the primary message be something like "reached
apparent end of WAL stream".
regards, tom lane