Provide a more accurate, detailed log message when the archive command fails.

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
index b336a4a376b529a42b5b5011c68590d52d4d4ea4..f9a88b664b0fdb3f363e726ac1cddce8dda16006 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c,v 1.33 2007/11/24 21:37:04 tgl Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c,v 1.34 2007/12/12 09:39:54 petere Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -484,11 +484,35 @@ pgarch_archiveXlog(char *xlog)
         * Per the Single Unix Spec, shells report exit status > 128 when a
         * called command died on a signal.
         */
-       bool        signaled = WIFSIGNALED(rc) || WEXITSTATUS(rc) > 128;
+       int     lev = (WIFSIGNALED(rc) || WEXITSTATUS(rc) > 128) ? FATAL : LOG;
 
-       ereport(signaled ? FATAL : LOG,
-               (errmsg("archive command \"%s\" failed: return code %d",
-                       xlogarchcmd, rc)));
+       if (WIFEXITED(rc))
+       {
+           ereport(lev,
+                   (errmsg("archive command failed with exit code %d", WEXITSTATUS(rc)),
+                    errdetail("The failed archive command was: %s", xlogarchcmd)));
+       }
+       else if (WIFSIGNALED(rc))
+       {
+           ereport(lev, (
+#if defined(WIN32)
+                       errmsg("archive command was terminated by exception 0x%X", WTERMSIG(rc)),
+                       errhint("See C include file \"ntstatus.h\" for a description of the hexadecimal value."),
+#elif defined(HAVE_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST) && HAVE_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST
+                       errmsg("archive command was terminated by signal %d: %s",
+                              WTERMSIG(rc),
+                              WTERMSIG(rc) < NSIG ? sys_siglist[WTERMSIG(rc)] : "(unknown)"),
+#else
+                       errmsg("archive command was terminated by signal %d", WTERMSIG(exitstatus)),
+#endif
+                       errdetail("The failed archive command was: %s", xlogarchcmd)));
+       }
+       else
+       {
+           ereport(lev,
+                   (errmsg("archive command exited with unrecognized status %d", rc),
+                    errdetail("The failed archive command was: %s", xlogarchcmd)));
+       }
 
        return false;
    }