On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 4:56 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2022-11-06 14:04:29 +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> >> I think the best thing to do is change huge_pages='on' to log a WARNING and
> >> fallback to regular pages if the mapping fails.
>
> > I am strongly opposed to making 'on' fall back to not using huge pages. That's
> > what 'try' is for.
>
> Agreed --- changing "on" to be exactly like "try" isn't an improvement.
> If you want "try" semantics, choose "try".
Agreed, but how can we make the people who want a log message happy,
without upsetting the people who don't want new log messages? Hence
my suggestion of a new level. How about try_verbose?
