From f5d576c6d278a61beec282b9b276a3a3cb2aec50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:43:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
 src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
index 3ddd596647..ffd4830cb0 100644
--- 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 */
 				}