Change pgWAL AutoGrow events to warnings#4292
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WAL volumes growing could indicate an issue with backups that needs to be addressed. This event should be presented to users as a warning.
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What is the current behavior (link to any open issues here)?
Some AutoGrow events for pgWAL volumes are displayed to the user as "Normal".
What is the new behavior (if this is a feature change)?
Any AutoGrow events related to pgWAL are now warnings to the user.
Other Information:
Growth of the pgWAL volume could be a symptom of an issue with cluster backups. Instead of treating this as a normal event we want to warn users that this could potentially be a problem.