Re: [RFC] Shouldn't we remove annoying FATAL messages from server log?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:47:22AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 11:25 PM, MauMau wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > My customers and colleagues sometimes (or often?) ask about the
> > following message:
> > 
> > FATAL:  the database system is starting up
> 
> I would LOVE that message to do away, forever.
> 
> It's a huge PITA for automated log monitoring, analysis, and alerting.
> 
> The other one I'd personally like to change, but realise is harder to
> actually do, is to separate "ERROR"s caused by obvious user input issues
> from internal ERRORs like not finding the backing file for a relation,
> block read errors, etc.
> 
> String pattern matching is a crude and awful non-solution, especially
> given the way PostgreSQL loves to output messages to the log in whatever
> language and encoding the current database connection is in.

Yes, this is certainly a challenge.

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