Re: Suppress 'duplicate key' at errorlog?

From: Jerry Sievers <gsievers19(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: Scott Whitney <scott(at)journyx(dot)com>
Cc: "Scott Ribe" <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>, "Rossi\, Maria" <maria(dot)rossi(at)us(dot)pgds(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Suppress 'duplicate key' at errorlog?
Date: 2015-03-31 00:54:27
Message-ID: 86oana3s1o.fsf@jerry.enova.com
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Scott Whitney <scott(at)journyx(dot)com> writes:

> Am I the only one concerned about a product trying to duplicate a pkey? This is not usually the LAST step. It's early on in the logical process. You have to find and
> solve the underlying cause.

I've seen lazy developers use a try insert/update if fail to implement a
poor man's upsert... a feature much sought after and only now being
seriously developed for Postgres.

So... whether or not it's a bug is application dependent.

Yes I'd question a 3rd party about this if the product wasn't developed
in house and/or fully open to code review to have them tell me "we did
it that way on purpose" though rather than just declaring it a nuisance.

FWIW

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Rossi, Maria <maria(dot)rossi(at)us(dot)pgds(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to suppress a ‘duplicate key’ msg from the errorlog? Due to a bug in a 3rd party application, this keeps on appearing and I am concerned that it
> will fill up the filesystem. I can delete the old errorlog, but if there is any other meaningful msgs out there, I would lose that too.
>
> No way to turn off that specific error message, but you could filter them out of the log, being careful of course not to filter any messages which might be more
> meaningful. You could also prevent the errors from being raised by using a trigger, but I don't like that idea very much at all.
>
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