On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:47:22AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 11:25 PM, MauMau wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My customers and colleagues sometimes (or often?) ask about the
> > following message:
> >
> > FATAL: the database system is starting up
>
> I would LOVE that message to do away, forever.
>
> It's a huge PITA for automated log monitoring, analysis, and alerting.
>
> The other one I'd personally like to change, but realise is harder to
> actually do, is to separate "ERROR"s caused by obvious user input issues
> from internal ERRORs like not finding the backing file for a relation,
> block read errors, etc.
>
> String pattern matching is a crude and awful non-solution, especially
> given the way PostgreSQL loves to output messages to the log in whatever
> language and encoding the current database connection is in.
Yes, this is certainly a challenge.
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