Re: I am done

Hi all,

Does anyone else have an opinion on this? If not, I will implement it per
Bruce's commentary.

Gavin

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > Okay, my bad. From my reading of the email exchange, I thought people
> > wanted this on -- always. The best solution for this, in my opinion, is to
> > have a magic value "off" which the error code lookup translates to some
> > number > PANIC.
>
> What do people think? I thought we needed a way to turn this off,
> especially if the queries can be large. Because ERROR is above LOG in
> server_min_messages, I don't think that is a way to fix it.
>
>
> > Secondly, there is a flaw in the patch. I merged all the
> > assign_server_min_messages() and assign_client_min_messages() code to make
> > things pretty. Perhaps I shouldn't have (since I left off FATAL and PANIC
> > from the list, which I shouldn't have for the prior but should have for
> > the latter). So there are a few ways to fix it: allow both functions (+
> > the log_min_error_state function) to accept all possible error codes +
> > "off" (which does nothing for the first two functions); pass a unique
> > number for each function to assign_msglvl() so that we can determine the
> > a legal error code for that GUC variable is being assigned; or, just have
> > different lists.
>
>
> I thought it was good you could merge them, but now I remember why I
> didn't --- they take different args.
>
>
> >
> > Now, the first solution is a hack, but it shouldn't actually break
> > anything. The second is overkill. The third is the best way to do it but
>
> You can't do the hack.
>
> > as we add more of these kinds of functions (log_min_parse,
> > log_min_rewritten? -- I can a use for that) the amount of assign_ code
> > will grow linearly and be pretty similar.
>
> I think the second, passing an arg to say whether it is server or
> client, will do the trick, though now you need an error one too. I
> guess you have to use #define and set it, or pass a string down with the
> GUC variable and test that with strcmp.
>
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