Re: [PATCHES] Infrastructure changes for recovery

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Infrastructure changes for recovery
Date: 2009-01-27 15:37:53
Message-ID: 15190.1233070673@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> (replying to a very old message, since I just bumped into this in review)
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> The new message is not translatable, the original was.

> Doesn't really matter since it's an elog(), not ereport().

... which is wrong in itself, since it's certainly meant as a
user-facing (or at least DBA-facing) message. elog should generally
only be used for debugging or "can't happen" messages, not for stuff
that users are expected to see on a routine basis.

regards, tom lane

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