Re: Correction for replication slot creation error message in 9.6

Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-03-31 10:15:21 +0900, Ian Barwick wrote:

> > Patch changes the error message to:
> > 
> >   ERROR:  replication slots can only be used if wal_level is "replica" or "logical"
> > 
> > Explicitly naming the valid WAL levels matches the wording in the wal_level
> > error hint used in a couple of places, i.e.
> 
> The explicit naming makes it much more verbose to change anything around
> wal level though, so consider me not a fan of spelling out all levels.

I thought we had agreed that we weren't going to consider the wal_level
values as a linear scale -- in other words, wordings such as "greater
than FOO" are discouraged.  That's always seemed a bit odd to me.

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