Re: Avoiding "will create implicit index" NOTICE

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2@obviously.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a good way to avoid triggering the "will create implicit
> index" NOTICE that Postgres (all versions) puts out.  This ends up spamming
> cron scripts for no good reason:
>
> => create table junk_six (foo int, primary key (foo));
> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
> "junk_six_pkey" for table "junk_six"
> CREATE TABLE
>
> I've got a hacky solution (in perl), pulled from
>  http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/jacques?node_id=540511
> which suppresses the warning:
>
> my $tmpwarn = $SIG{__WARN__};
> $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { print STDERR @_ if $_[0] !~ m/NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE/;
> };
> $sqldb->sql_execute("create table junk_six (foo int, primary key (foo));");
> $SIG{__WARN__} = $tmpwarn;
>
> And I know that I can edit the warning level in postgresql.conf with some
> other side effects.
> But the best solution would be to avoid the notice in the first place.  Is
> this possible?

You can also set log_min_messages by the connection, by the user, and
by the database.

alter user bubba set log_min_messages=error;

etc.