Re: Fw: [BUGS] BUG #6011: Some extra messages are output in the event log at PostgreSQL startup

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>> I wish the fix will be back-patched in 8.3, too.
>
> I guess the question is whether this is a bug which causes more
> problems than the potential breakage which might ensue for someone
> who relies on the current behavior.  How sure can you be that nobody
> relies on seeing those messages?  No information (like a history of
> database start times) is lost without these entries?

I think Tom had the right idea upthread: what we should do is make the
"-s" option to pg_ctl suppress these messages (as it does with similar
messages on Linux).  Removing them altogether seems like overkill, for
the reasons you mention.

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Robert Haas
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