Add some words of caution to elog.c.

Stephen Frost, somewhat rewritten by me
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Robert Haas 2011-02-17 10:29:42 -05:00
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* elog.c
* error logging and reporting
*
* Because of the extremely high rate at which log messages can be generated,
* we need to be mindful of the performance cost of obtaining any information
* that may be logged. Also, it's important to keep in mind that this code may
* get called from within an aborted transaction, in which case operations
* such as syscache lookups are unsafe.
*
* Some notes about recursion and errors during error processing:
*
* We need to be robust about recursive-error scenarios --- for example,