Re: Better client reporting for "immediate stop" shutdowns

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2020-12-26 13:37:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'd like to not log all these repeated messages into the server
>>> log. It's quite annoying to have to digg through thousands of lines of
>>> repeated "terminating connection..."

>> Hm. That's an orthogonal issue, but certainly worth considering.
>> There are a couple of levels we could consider:
>> 1. Just make the logged messages less verbose (they certainly don't
>> need the DETAIL and HINT lines).
>> 2. Suppress the log entries altogether.

> My vote would be #2, with the same reasoning as yours.

The most straightforward way to do that is to introduce a new error
level. Having to renumber existing levels is a bit of a pain, but
I'm not aware of anything that should break in source-code terms.
We make similar ABI breaks in every major release.

regards, tom lane