Re: NOTICE vs WARNING

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: NOTICE vs WARNING
Date: 2003-09-03 01:46:01
Message-ID: 04f701c371bd$2360cd10$2800a8c0@mars
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> In fact, I like the criterion that a warning should be raised rather than
> a notice if the effect of the command deviates from what the command
> actually says. That puts the messages for serials, primary keys, drop
> cascades clearly into notices, messages about missing, implicitly added,
> or changed syntax clauses into warnings.
>
> I don't think the dump reload scenario is particularly important. After
> all, psql or pg_restore don't act differently upon notice or warning, it's
> just something that the user reads.

WARNINGs don't cause transaction rollback, right? Cos if they did, changing
NOTICEs to WARNINGs would cause pain.

Chris

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