Re: Frontend error logging style

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 5:17 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> If people want to do that kind of thing (I'm undecided whether the
> complexity is worth it), then make it a different API.  The pg_log_*
> calls are for writing formatted output.  They normalized existing
> hand-coded patterns at the time.  We can wrap another API on top of them
> that does flow control and output.  The pg_log_* stuff is more on the
> level of syslog(), which also just outputs stuff.  Nobody is suggesting
> that syslog(LOG_EMERG) should exit the program automatically.  But you
> can wrap higher-level APIs such as ereport() on top of that that might
> do that.

Yeah, that might be a way forward.

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