Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> This should be elog(LOG), not elog(WARNING). Compare the treatment
>> of syntax errors within the file.
> While I can agree that they should be the same, why should they not be
> WARNING?
Because the postmaster has no client to receive a WARNING, and the log
message level is likely to be such that a WARNING won't get there
either. Furthermore, if there are any live backends that might chance
to issue this message, having it pop up as a WARNING seems more likely
to be confusing than helpful, since it'll be unrelated to whatever SQL
command they are doing.
In general, LOG elevel should be used for background-type problems,
which is what this is.
regards, tom lane