Re: Rationalizing EXPLAIN VERBOSE output

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > ... I am concerned that making explain like
> > SELECT means it is on the one piece of debug info you can't get into the
> > server logs.  Query dump can already get into the query logs, but not
> > EXPLAIN non-verbose.
> 
> A week ago you were willing to set things up so that INFO output could
> not get into the server logs period.  Why so concerned now?  EXPLAIN
> output does not seem like suitable data for logs to me, any more than
> the output of SELECT queries does.  It's only a historical artifact
> that we are accustomed to thinking of it as being loggable.
> 
> > In fact, as Peter explains it, NOTICE \g goes to the terminal because it
> > is assumed to be an error.  Maybe we need to make psql smarter and only
> > send ERROR/WARNING to terminal, and INFO/NOTICE to the log file.
> 
> While I suggested that to start with, it seems like a bad idea on
> further thought.  Mixing INFO/NOTICE with query output would be just
> like piping stdout and stderr to the same place.  There's usually
> good reason to keep them separate.

OK, sounds interesting.

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