Re: warning message in standby

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> I'm totally unimpressed by the argument that log-filtering
> applications don't know enough to pay attention to LOG messages.
> There are already a lot of those that are quite important to notice.

We have a log level where 1 log entry in a million is something serious
and all the rest are generally ignorable. That situation leads to the
cognitive phenomena is known as "normalization of deviance", a term
coined in the wake of the Challenger disaster.

Should I be downgrading Hot Standby breakages to LOG? That will
certainly help high availability as well.

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