On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: >> Not sure if Andres is working on that for now or not, the main >> discussion that I am foreseeing here is how we are going to map elevel >> for the frontend (should FATAL, PANIC exit immediately, etc). > > Doesn't seem that complicated to me: elevel >= ERROR results in exit(1), > otherwise just print to stderr and return. We'd be eyeballing each case > that we remove "#ifndef FRONTEND" from anyway; if it's expecting behavior > noticeably more complicated than that, we could leave it as-is.
Something that I see as mandatory as well is a way to bypass some of the elevels depending on the way a frontend tool is called, so we'd need something like that in the common elog facility: void elog(blah) { #ifdef FRONTEND if (!callback_routine_defined_in_frontend(elevel)) return; #endif blah_blah_move_on. } This would be useful to avoid code patterns of this type in a frontend tool where for example a debug flag is linked with elevel. For example this pattern: if (debug) elog(DEBUG1, "Debug blah"); could be reduced to as the callback routine would allow bypassing elog() directly: elog(DEBUG1, "Debug blah"); That's just food for thought at this stage, I get back to reviewing... -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers