Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-11-06 11:19:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hence, I propose that we should disallow setting client_min_messages
>> any higher than ERROR, and that this probably even amounts to a
>> back-patchable bug fix.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> Seems reasonable. I do think it's probably sensible to backpatch,
> although I wonder if we shouldn't clamp the value to ERROR at log
> emission error time, rather than via guc.c, so we don't prevent old code
> / postgresql.conf that set client_min_messages to > ERROR.
Hm, do you really think there is any? And if there is, wouldn't we be
breaking it anyway thanks to the behavioral change?
regards, tom lane