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Subject: Re: Major Version Upgrade failure due to orphan roles entries in catalog
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Sometimes I find it helpful to play with the message level and the
> primary message wording as a way of indicating the gravity, e.g.

> info: dumping grant of role \"%s\" to role \"%s\" without GRANTED BY,
> because role with OID %u no longer exists

> vs.

> warning: grant of role \"%s\" to \"%s\" has invalid grantor OID %u
> detail: this grant will be dumped without GRANTED BY

I'd be content to use those wordings (except I think our style
guide wants detail to be punctuated like a sentence).  I'll wait
a day or so to see if anyone has a better idea, though.

			regards, tom lane