Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15

On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 1:58 AM Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
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> st 5. 4. 2023 v 19:20 odesílatel Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> napsal:
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>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 at 07:34, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > This feature can significantly increase log size, so it's disabled by default.
>> > For testing or development environments it's recommended to enable it if you
>> > use session variables.
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>> I think it's generally not practical to have warnings for valid DML.
>> Effectively warnings in DML are errors since they make the syntax just
>> unusable. I suppose it's feasible to have it as a debugging option
>> that defaults to off but I'm not sure it's really useful.
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> It is a tool that should help with collision detection.  Without it, it can be pretty hard to detect it. It is
similarto plpgsql's extra warnings. 

Another example is escape_string_warning, which can also emit warning
for valid DML.  I once had to fix some random framework that a
previous employer was using, in order to move to a more recent pg
version and have standard_conforming_strings on, and having
escape_string_warning was quite helpful.