Re: Proposal: leave a hint when switching logging away from stderr - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Proposal: leave a hint when switching logging away from stderr
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Msg-id 20130809162642.GA2706@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Proposal: leave a hint when switching logging away from stderr  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Proposal: leave a hint when switching logging away from stderr  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Thoughts?  In particular, anyone want to bikeshed on the message wording?

Looks like a good idea to me and the wording looks fine to me.

> Does this rise to the level of a usability bug that ought to be
> back-patched?  As I said, we've seen this type of thinko multiple
> times before.

For this, I'd say to not back-patch it; we seem to have had enough fun
with changing error messaging in back branches already lately (eg:
the recent autovacuum changes..).
Thanks,
    Stephen

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