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Re: warning message in standby

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-14T18:35:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 20:22, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> LOG is already over-used and so anything said at that level is drowned.
>
> This is nonsense.

Whether it's over-used or not may be, but that doesn't make the
general issue nonsense.

But the fact is that having LOG at a higher priority than WARNING and
ERROR is un-intuitive in the extreme, and I bet there aren't many
non-experts who realize this. I don't know of any other software that
does this. Heck, *experienced* postgresql users keep getting this
wrong. Perhaps we need to re-think the naming there?

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