Re: auto_explain contrib moudle

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martin Pihlak <martin(dot)pihlak(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: auto_explain contrib moudle
Date: 2008-11-07 20:37:22
Message-ID: 23349.1226090242@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martin Pihlak <martin(dot)pihlak(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> There was actually a patch to disable the psql notices, but there were
> some concerns and I think it was removed:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01264.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-09/msg01752.php

> Patch is at:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-08/msg01274.php
> and seems to get rid of the annoying messages. If there aren't any
> major issues with it, I think it should be re-added.

As I said in the first-quoted message, that patch was simply a band-aid
trying to cover poorly designed behavior; and it still is. The fact is
that most clients will not react very gracefully to unexpected notice
messages, especially not large numbers of same.

regards, tom lane

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