Re: Unified logging system for command-line programs

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-03T21:38:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 03/01/2019 22:01, Tom Lane wrote:
> I envisioned that we'd have a wrapper in which
> non-error ereports() map directly onto what you're calling
> pg_log_debug, pg_log_warning, etc,

My code does that, but the other way around.  (It's easier that way than
to unpack ereport() invocations.)

> while ereport(ERROR) has the
> effect of writing a message and then calling exit(1).

The problem is that in majority of cases the FRONTEND code, as it is
written today, doesn't want to exit() after an error.

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Commits

  1. Unified logging system for command-line programs

  2. Assorted translatable string fixes