On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Sure, but nobody who is not a developer is going to care about that.
>> A typical user who sees "pgstat wait timeout", or doesn't, isn't going
>> to be able to make anything at all out of that.
>
> Possibly we need to improve the wording of that error message then.
> When it was written, we really assumed that it was a can't-happen case
> and so didn't spend much effort on it. Perhaps it should become a
> translatable ereport phrased like "WARNING: using stale statistics
> instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding".
I'm still not completely convinced it deserves to be a WARNING, but I
definitely think turning it into a translatable error message is the
right call. Calling this a "can't happen" case is clearly ridiculous
at this point.
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