Re: Proposal: leave a hint when switching logging away from stderr

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: leave a hint when switching logging away from stderr
Date: 2013-08-09 16:26:42
Message-ID: 20130809162642.GA2706@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Thoughts? In particular, anyone want to bikeshed on the message wording?

Looks like a good idea to me and the wording looks fine to me.

> Does this rise to the level of a usability bug that ought to be
> back-patched? As I said, we've seen this type of thinko multiple
> times before.

For this, I'd say to not back-patch it; we seem to have had enough fun
with changing error messaging in back branches already lately (eg:
the recent autovacuum changes..).

Thanks,

Stephen

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