From: "Greg Stark" <stark@mit.edu>
> On the client end the FATAL is pretty logical but in the logs it makes
> it sound like the entire server died. Especially in this day of
> multithreaded servers. I was suggesting that that was the origin of
> the confusion here. Anyone who has seen these messages on the client
> end many times might interpret them correctly in the server logs but
> someone who has only been a DBA, not a database user might never have
> seen them except in the server logs and without the context might not
> realize that FATAL is a term of art peculiar to Postgres.
I think so, too.
My customers and colleagues, who are relatively new to PostgreSQL, asked
like "Is this FATAL message a sign of some problem? What does it mean?" I
think it's natural to show concern when finding FATAL messages. I find it
unnatural for a normal administration operation to emit a FATAL message.
Regards
MauMau