Re: Proposed GUC Variable

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 17:30, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:08:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > But we should have some default to print some of the query,
> > 
> > Why?  So far you've been told by two different people (make that three
> > now) that such a behavior is useless, and no one's weighed in in its
> > favor ...
> 
> I agree that a 'trimmed' query is likely to be useless, but the idea of
> printing the query on ERROR is a big win for me: right now I'm logging
> _all_ queries on our development machine (and sometimes on our production
> machine. when there's trouble) so my logs would get considerably smaller.
I agree with printing the query on error... just not limiting it to 80
characters by default. 
> 
> A settable trim length would probably be a good idea, I suppose, for
> those slinging 'bytea' and toasted texts around.
Yes, but the default should be NO TRIM or in 1K-4K range. IMHO

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