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Re: Disallow setting client_min_messages > ERROR?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-11-06T16:48:03Z
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On 2018-Nov-06, Andres Freund wrote:

> On 2018-11-06 11:37:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> > Hm, do you really think there is any?
> 
> I'm not sure. But it sounds like it'd possibly slow adoption of the
> minor releases if we said "hey, make sure that you nowhere set
> client_min_messages > ERROR", even if it's not particularly meaningful
> thing to do, as it'd still imply a fair bit of work for bigger
> applications with not great standards.

I agree -- it seems better to have a benign no-op and prevent this kind
of silly rationale from preventing upgrades.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Disallow setting client_min_messages higher than ERROR.