Re: COPY FREEZE has no warning

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-01-25T16:59:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:48:37AM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
>> FWIW, and I won't annoy anyone further after this email, now that its
>> deterministic, I still think that this should be an ERROR not a WARNING.

> As the FREEZE is just an optimization, I thought NOTICE, vs WARNING or
> ERROR was fine.  If others want this changed, please reply.

The previous argument about it was "if you bothered to specify FREEZE,
you probably really want/need that behavior".  So I can definitely see
Andres' point.  Perhaps WARNING would be a suitable compromise?

			regards, tom lane