"MauMau" <maumau...@gmail.com> writes:
> Shouldn't we lower the severity or avoiding those messages to server log? 

No.  They are FATAL so far as the individual session is concerned.
Possibly some documentation effort is needed here, but I don't think
any change in the code behavior would be an improvement.

> 1. FATAL:  the database system is starting up
> 2. FATAL:  the database system is shutting down
> 3. FATAL:  the database system is in recovery mode
> 4. FATAL:  sorry, too many clients already
> Report these as FATAL to the client because the client wants to know the 
> reason.  But don't output them to server log because they are not necessary 
> for DBAs (4 is subtle.)

The notion that a DBA should not be allowed to find out how often #4 is
happening is insane.

                        regards, tom lane


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