Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone explain in succinct and general terms what the difference > between a NOTICE and a WARNING is? I'm currently examining the validity > of notice and warning messages throughout the backend, but I find these > categories to be applied inconsistently.
I'm sure they are :-(. WARNING was invented much later than NOTICE, and I don't believe anyone tried to come up with a hard-and-fast distinction, much less go through the code line-by-line to apply it consistently to existing NOTICEs. I'd say that WARNING means "this is probably wrong, you'd better take a close look" while NOTICE is something that's probably OK but we want to tell the user what we're doing. Dunno whether that's precise enough though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster