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Re: warning message in standby

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-14T14:37:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> The correct log level for this message is LOG. End of discussion.
> 
> > Why?
> 
> Because it's not being issued in a user's session.  The only place it
> can go is to the system log, and if you use a level of WARNING or less,
> it's likely to get filtered out by log_min_messages.
> 
> I'm totally unimpressed by the argument that log-filtering applications
> don't know enough to pay attention to LOG messages.  There are already a
> lot of those that are quite important to notice.

My point was that log filtering applications might ignore WARNING.  They
don't usually ignore LOG.
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