Re: NOTICE vs WARNING

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: NOTICE vs WARNING
Date: 2003-08-27 04:21:25
Message-ID: 0c7901c36c52$ade65f60$2800a8c0@mars
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> If it were in fact the characteristic of a NOTICE that you need not pay
> attention to them, why do we have them?

I have often wondered that myself.

> > My thought is that you could turn off NOTICES and not worry.
>
> Well, there are plenty of NOTICE instances that carry a definite need to
> worry, such as identifier truncation, implicitly added FROM items,
> implicit changes to types specified as "opaque", unsupported and ignored
> syntax clauses.

I think that WARNING should be used for ALL things that have been
deprecated. eg. implicit FROM, the opaque business, and definitely
unsupported and ignored synacies.

> I have a slight feeling that these two categories cannot usefully be
> distinguished, but I'm interested to hear other opinions.

Chris

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