On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote: >> The argument for defaulting to NOTICE is the same as it's always been: >> that those messages are really intended for novices, and a pretty good >> definition of a novice is somebody who doesn't know how to (or that he >> should) change the verbosity setting. So if we don't show notices by >> default, they will be unavailable to exactly the people who need them. >> Your proposal does not overcome this argument. > > I'm sceptical about what a real "novice" is expected to do about the > incredible flow of useless information displayed when loading a significant > script. For a start, s?he should be an incredibly fast reader:-) > > For a non-novice it just hides what is important and should be seen.
There might be something to the idea of demoting a few of the things we've traditionally had as NOTICEs, though. IME, the following two messages account for a huge percentage of the chatter: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "foo_a_seq" for serial column "foo.a" NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "foo_pkey" for table "foo" I'm not going to claim that nobody in the history of the world has ever benefited from those notices ... but I would be willing to bet that a large majority of the people, in a large majority of the cases, do not care. And getting rid of them would surely make warnings and notices that might actually be of interest to the user a lot more visible. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers