Improve message about failed transaction log archiving

The old phrasing appeared to imply that the failure was terminal.
Improve that by indicating that archiving will be tried again later.

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
index 3ddd59664765ae09f78a723adbce1eef4ca73f6c..ffd4830cb0538d6c64f37eb8a68aa9888490ebc4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ pgarch_ArchiverCopyLoop(void)
                                if (++failures >= NUM_ARCHIVE_RETRIES)
                                {
                                        ereport(WARNING,
-                                                       (errmsg("transaction log file \"%s\" could not be archived: too many failures",
+                                                       (errmsg("archiving transaction log file \"%s\" failed too many times, will try again later",
                                                                        xlog)));
                                        return;         /* give up archiving for now */
                                }