Re: quieting DEBUG3

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: quieting DEBUG3
Date: 2015-10-28 19:10:23
Message-ID: 20151028191023.GA5726@alvherre.pgsql
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Robert Haas wrote:

> Another point I want to reiterate - because nobody seems to be
> addressing it - is that some of these messages are totally useless. I
> grant that printing the transaction state (XIDs, CIDs, etc.) is
> useful. But does anybody really think that it's useful for every
> statement to *additionally* generate DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand?
> Who looks at that? What value does it have? We do not print a
> message when any other function that is called for every query is
> entered - why that one?

No, it is useless, let's get rid of it. Maybe it was a useful debugging
tool when postgres.c was being developed, but it's not useful now and
instead very bothersome.

> Whether we adjust the log levels of the messages we have or not, we
> surely ought to get rid of the ones that are useless clutter.

Agreed. I liked your proposal for reduction of transaction state
printout to a single, denser line.

> Can anyone think of a single instance in which that particular message
> has been useful in debugging ... anything?

Not I.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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