Re: warning message in standby

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 11:14 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> >> Should I be downgrading Hot Standby breakages to LOG? That will
> >> certainly help high availability as well.
> >
> > If a message is being issued in a non-user-connected session, there
> > is basically not a lot of point in WARNING or below.  It should either
> > be LOG, or ERROR/FATAL/PANIC (which are probably all about the same
> > thing in the startup process...)
> 
> I think Simon's point here is the same as mine - LOG isn't too high -
> it's too low.

Yes, *and* how do we decide which this is?

Should I downgrade all of my code to throwing LOGs rather than ERRORs,
because (following the same argument) doing so would be better for high
availability? It's not a facetious question.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com