Re: log_min_messages per backend type
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Cc: japin <japinli@hotmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-02-09T13:03:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2026-Feb-09, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I just pushed this, and somehow I forgot to squash this into the commit.
> I don't think it matters terribly much though, so I'm going to hang onto
> this for a while in case some bug is found.
Euler mentioned offlist that I also forgot to remove
log_min_messages_process_types from guc.h. So that gives us this patch
for now.
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
index 129906e2daa..59315e94e3e 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
@@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@ check_log_min_messages(char **newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
char *result;
int newlevel[BACKEND_NUM_TYPES];
bool assigned[BACKEND_NUM_TYPES] = {0};
- int genericlevel = -1; /* -1 means not assigned */
+ int defaultlevel = -1; /* -1 means not assigned */
const char *const process_types[] = {
#define PG_PROCTYPE(bktype, bkcategory, description, main_func, shmem_attach) \
@@ -2228,8 +2228,8 @@ check_log_min_messages(char **newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
const struct config_enum_entry *entry;
bool found;
- /* Reject duplicates for generic log level. */
- if (genericlevel != -1)
+ /* Reject duplicates for default log level. */
+ if (defaultlevel != -1)
{
GUC_check_errdetail("Redundant specification of default log level.");
goto lmm_fail;
@@ -2241,7 +2241,7 @@ check_log_min_messages(char **newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
{
if (pg_strcasecmp(entry->name, elem) == 0)
{
- genericlevel = entry->val;
+ defaultlevel = entry->val;
found = true;
break;
}
@@ -2331,9 +2331,9 @@ lmm_fail:
}
/*
- * The generic log level must be specified. It is the fallback value.
+ * The default log level must be specified. It is the fallback value.
*/
- if (genericlevel == -1)
+ if (defaultlevel == -1)
{
GUC_check_errdetail("Default log level was not defined.");
guc_free(rawstring);
@@ -2345,7 +2345,7 @@ lmm_fail:
for (int i = 0; i < BACKEND_NUM_TYPES; i++)
{
if (!assigned[i])
- newlevel[i] = genericlevel;
+ newlevel[i] = defaultlevel;
}
/*
diff --git a/src/include/utils/guc.h b/src/include/utils/guc.h
index 8acbdba7ff5..c46203fabfe 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/guc.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/guc.h
@@ -329,8 +329,6 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT bool trace_sort;
extern PGDLLIMPORT bool optimize_bounded_sort;
#endif
-extern PGDLLIMPORT const char *const log_min_messages_process_types[];
-
/*
* Declarations for options for enum values
*
--
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Cleanup for log_min_messages changes in 38e0190ced71
- 1efdd7cc630a 19 (unreleased) landed
-
Allow log_min_messages to be set per process type
- 38e0190ced71 19 (unreleased) landed
-
Assign "backend" type earlier during process start-up
- 0c8e082fba8d 19 (unreleased) landed
-
Use integer backend type when exec'ing a postmaster child
- f1cd34f95272 19 (unreleased) landed
-
Sort guc_parameters.dat alphabetically by name
- fce7c73fba4e 19 (unreleased) cited
-
Create a separate file listing backend types
- dbf8cfb4f02e 19 (unreleased) cited
-
Replace postmaster.c's own backend type codes with BackendType
- 18d67a8d7d30 18.0 cited