Re: A couple items on TODO
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-hackers@dynworks.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-08-23T16:46:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> AFAIR, elog at NOTICE or DEBUG level isn't really supposed to have any > side-effects. The bigger issue is that you have to be careful about > using it in certain places, mainly during startup or for reporting > communication errors. (send failure -> elog -> tries to send message to > client -> send failure -> elog -> trouble) > > Also, I believe most of the printf's in the backend are in debugging > support code that's not even compiled by default. The return on > investment from converting those routines to use elog is really nil. > There may be a few remaining printf calls that should be converted to > elog, but I don't think this is a big issue. Clearly not a big issue, but something someone can poke around at to get started. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026