Re: elog() proposals

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I just submitted a patch to fix various elog() issues.  I have two
> additional proposals.
> 
> First, I think ERROR/DEBUG/NOTICE/FATAL, etc are too generic and cause
> compile problems/warnings, especially with Perl.  I suggest renaming all
> elog levels to PG*, so it would be PGERROR and PGINFO.  We could also do
> E_* or E*.  I am interested in other opinions.

I think we will need to rename symbols for 7.3 to PG_ or E_ or something
like that, but keep #define's in place with the old values through 7.3,
and urge people to update their code for 7.3, and remove the old symbols
in 7.4.  We did this with LIMIT for 7.2.

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