Re: debug_level 0 does not stop debug messages

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Jon <polandj@engin.umich.edu>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-05-08T18:28:30Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
> Sure,
>    I have about 70 tables, each vacuum prints out something like this per
> table.  You'll notice it prints stuff for each index also.
> 
> postgres[23034]: [566] DEBUG:  --Relation test--
> postgres[23034]: [567-1] DEBUG:  Pages 1: Changed 1, reaped 1, Empty 0,
> New 0; Tup 3: Vac 1, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 14, MinLen 67, MaxLen
> 67;
> postgres[23034]: [567-2]  Re-using: Free/Avail. Space 7896/0;
> EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/0. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec.
> postgres[23034]: [568] DEBUG:  Index test_pkey: Pages 2;
> Tuples 3: Deleted 1. CPU -1.99s/0.00u sec.
> 
> Also, on a side note, I read a post to the list about 2 weeks ago about
> you writing a performance tuning document and putting it up on the
> website. Did this happen and I miss it, or is it still in the works?

OK, I did a little research on this.  It turns out that this code in
vacuum.c:

    if (vacstmt->verbose)
        MESSAGE_LEVEL = NOTICE;
    else
        MESSAGE_LEVEL = DEBUG;  

controls whether the message comes out as a NOTICE or a DEBUG.  My guess
is that you are doing a VACUUM VERBOSE, and those are coming out in the
server logs.

Guys, is this the proper way to handle this?

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