> There might be something to the idea of demoting a few of the things
> we've traditionally had as NOTICEs, though. IME, the following two
> messages account for a huge percentage of the chatter:
>
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "foo_a_seq" for
> serial column "foo.a"
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
> "foo_pkey" for table "foo"
You can also add:
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will create implicit index "foo_name_key"
for table "foo"
I agree that these amount for most of the noise.
As create table does create other objects, I could understand that someone
wants to hear about that. Maybe move them as "info" ? Otherwise, changing
the default message level seems reasonable to me. What we really case when
loading an SQL script is WARNING & ERROR, so that should be what is
activated.
> I'm not going to claim that nobody in the history of the world has
> ever benefited from those notices ... but I would be willing to bet
> that a large majority of the people, in a large majority of the cases,
> do not care. And getting rid of them would surely make warnings and
> notices that might actually be of interest to the user a lot more
> visible.
--
Fabien.