Re: Badly designed error reporting code in controldata_utils.c

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Badly designed error reporting code in controldata_utils.c
Date: 2016-03-08 04:51:01
Message-ID: 20160308045101.zsskmonxnmjip2un@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2016-03-08 13:45:25 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > FWIW I'm considering implementing elog/ereport properly for the
> > frontend. We've grown several hacks around that not being present, and
> > I think those by now have a higher aggregate complexity than a proper
> > implementation would have.
>
> That would be handy. And this is are going to need something like
> callbacks to allow frontend applications how to apply elevel. Take for
> example pg_rewind, it has an interface with DEBUG and PROGRESS level
> directly embedded with FATAL controlled by user-defined options.

What does "directly embedded with FATAL" mean?

I don't really want to go further than what our system already is
capable of; once we have that we can look for the next steps.

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