Tom Lane wrote: > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Looking at the code, I notice that the messages are all emitted at level > >> NOTICE. Perhaps that was not such a good idea --- it'd be pretty much > >> in-your-face if it were on all the time. Does anyone think it'd be a > >> good idea to emit the trace_sort messages at level LOG, instead? > > > If someone sets trace_sort, does it matter what level its emit'd at? > > Well, yeah. It depends whether you are thinking of the trace feature as > being used interactively, or as something turned on to gather data over > time in a production installation. In the second case you'd want the > info to go to the postmaster log, but not want to see it dumped on your > terminal all the time ...
I think it should go to the logs, hence LOG. Right now it just scrolls off my screen: test=> select * from pg_class order by relname; NOTICE: begin tuple sort: nkeys = 1, workMem = 1024, randomAccess = t NOTICE: performsort starting: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec NOTICE: performsort done: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec NOTICE: sort ended: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec relname | relnamespace | reltype | relowner | relam | relfilenode | reltablespace | relpages | reltup les | reltoastrelid | reltoastidxid | relhasindex | relisshared | relkind | relnatts | relchecks | reltriggers | relukeys | relf ... -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org