Re: pg_restore logging inconsistency

Excerpts from Josh Kupershmidt's message of mié may 30 14:55:12 -0400 2012:
> Hi all,
>
> Bosco Rama recently complained[1] about not seeing a message printed
> by pg_restore for each LO to be restored. The culprit seems to be the
> different level passed to ahlog() for this status message:
>
> pg_backup_archiver.c:    ahlog(AH, 2, "restoring large object with OID %u\n", oid);
> pg_backup_tar.c:                ahlog(AH, 1, "restoring large object OID %u\n", oid);
>
> depending on whether one is restoring a tar-format or custom-format
> dump. I think these messages should be logged at the same level, to
> avoid this inconsistency. The attached patch logs them both with
> level=1, and makes the message texts identical. Note, as of 9.0 there
> is already a line like this printed for each LO:
>
> pg_restore: executing BLOB 135004
>
> so I could see the argument for instead wanting to hide the "restoring
> large object" messages. However, the OP was interested in seeing
> something like a status indicator for the lo_write() calls which may
> take a long time, and the above message isn't really helpful for that
> purpose as it is printed earlier in the restore process. Plus it seems
> reasonable to make verbose mode, well, verbose.

I applied this patch all the way back to 8.3.  Thanks.

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