Merge pull request #102 from zalando/bugfix/silenceapithread

Avoid excessive log output in the API thread.

patroni/api.py

@@ -242,14 +242,17 @@ class RestApiHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             }
         except (psycopg2.Error, RetryFailedError, PostgresConnectionException):
             state = self.server.patroni.postgresql.state
-            if state in ['stopped', 'starting', 'stopping', 'restarting', 'running']:
+            if state == 'running':
                 logger.exception('get_postgresql_status')
-                state = 'unknown' if state == 'running' else state
+                state = 'unknown'
             return {'state': state}
 
     def get_tags(self):
         return {'tags': self.server.patroni.tags}
 
+    def log_message(self, format, *args):
+        logger.debug("API thread: " + format % args)
+
 
 class RestApiServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer, Thread):