Re: Reducing the log spam

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reducing the log spam
Date: 2024-03-06 20:31:17
Message-ID: f88513d4906001a599da3b5dfddee32e011fe5c8.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 10:50 -0500, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 7:55 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> > My experience from the field is that a lot of log spam looks like
> >
> >   database/table/... "xy" does not exist
> >   duplicate key value violates unique constraint "xy"
>
> Forcibly hiding those at the Postgres level seems a heavy hammer for what is ultimately an application problem.

Yes... or no. Lots of applications violate constraints routinely.
As long as the error is caught and handled, that's not a problem.

Whoever cares about the log messages can enable them. My impression
is that most people don't care about them.

But thanks for your opinion.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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