Re: elog() proposal

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:54:51PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I just submitted a patch to fix various elog() issues. I have two
> additional proposals.
>
> First, I think ERROR/DEBUG/NOTICE/FATAL, etc are too generic and cause
> compile problems/warnings, especially with Perl. I suggest renaming all
> elog levels to PG*, so it would be PGERROR and PGINFO. We could also do
> E_* or E*. I am interested in other opinions.

You forgot PG_* :-)

> Second, I propose adding two GUC variables that control how much elog()
> info is sent to the server and client logs. I suggest
> 'server_message_min' with possible values DEBUG, LOG, NOTICE, ERROR,
> FATAL, CRASH; and 'client_message_min' with possible values INFO,
> NOTICE, ERROR, FATAL, CRASH.

IMHO stop an example NOTICE by "SET NOTICE TO 'OFF'" is better and
more common way than current the only one way in libpq and
PQsetNoticeProcessor.

Karel

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