Re: elog() patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: elog() patch
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Msg-id 200203012037.g21Kb0302250@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: elog() patch  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> ...
> > My take was to have WARNING and NOTICE, yours is WARNING and INFO ?
> > For me INFO is also better to understand than NOTICE.
> > Not sure that alone is worth the change though, since lots of
> > clients will currently parse "NOTICE".
> 
> fwiw, I find the connotations of these terms to be, in increasing order
> of severity:
> 
>   INFO, NOTICE, WARNING
> 
> though the distinction between INFO and NOTICE is not so great that one
> absolutely could not replace the other.

Yes, that was my thought to.  I am not sure we have any need for NOTICE
when we have INFO and WARNING.  The NOTICE sort of kept both meanings,
and we don't need that anymore.

On a humorous note, when we got the code from Berkeley, WARN was the
original tag to error out a query.

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