Re: Reducing the log spam

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-03-05T13:08:25Z
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  1. plpgsql: make WHEN OTHERS distinct from WHEN SQLSTATE '00000'.

Hi

út 5. 3. 2024 v 13:55 odesílatel Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
napsal:

> Inspired by feedback to [1], I thought about how to reduce log spam.
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> My experience from the field is that a lot of log spam looks like
>
>   database/table/... "xy" does not exist
>   duplicate key value violates unique constraint "xy"
>
> So what about a parameter "log_suppress_sqlstates" that suppresses
> logging ERROR and FATAL messages with the enumerated SQL states?
>
> My idea for a default setting would be something like
>
>   log_suppress_sqlstates = '23505,3D000,3F000,42601,42704,42883,42P01'
>

+1 in this form

the overhead of this implementation should be small

Regards

Pavel


> but that's of course bikeshedding territory.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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>  [1]:
> https://postgr.es/m/b8b8502915e50f44deb111bc0b43a99e2733e117.camel%40cybertec.at
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