| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: NOTICE vs WARNING |
| Date: | 2003-08-26 20:41:55 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0308262232540.1185-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:
> Surely a WARNING is a problem that you should probably fix?
How are "should" and "probably" defined?
> Or at least pay attention to.
If it were in fact the characteristic of a NOTICE that you need not pay
attention to them, why do we have them?
> My thought is that you could turn of NOTICES and not worry.
Well, there are plenty of NOTICE instances that carry a definite need to
worry, such as identifier truncation, implicitly added FROM items,
implicit changes to types specified as "opaque", unsupported and ignored
syntax clauses.
I have a slight feeling that these two categories cannot usefully be
distinguished, but I'm interested to hear other opinions.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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