RE: now getting log messages!

Hello Adrian,

I agree with your 'Hmm' skepticism and will be looking at this later tonight. On the bright side, I finally have the logging working properly and this should make it relative easy for me to backtrack and find/understand the mistake I was making.

I only have one instance of the PostgreSql server running. I've intentionally kept my PostgreSql configuration as simple as possible so I can focus on ADO.NET.

Thanks for the pointer about the 'log' setting. I will take a closer look at this.

Cheers,

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com]
Sent: 31 May, 2018 16:24
To: ib(at)ianbellsoftware(dot)com; pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: now getting log messages!

On 05/31/2018 01:03 PM, Ian Bell wrote:
> Hello Adrian,
>
> Your suggestions have changed something and my messages are appearing in the log file. As per your suggestion, I enabled ' log_connections' and 'log_disconnections' and restarted the server.

Hmm, again:)

Changing log_connections, log_disconnections would not have enabled logging the 'log' messages. The server restart would be the likely trigger for catching the logging settings for client_min_messages and log_min_messages. What solicited the hmm was that in your first post you said you had restarted the server multiple times when changing the logging settings.

Do you have more then one instance of Postgres running on this machine?

If so maybe you where restarting the wrong server previously?

>
> I now have something to work with. In addition, I now know what to expect when attempting to log messages (I'm a SQL newbie).

On that score the 'log' message level is one you need to be careful of as it ranks differently in the client versus in the log file:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHEN

"client_min_messages (enum)

Controls which message levels are sent to the client. Valid values are DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2, DEBUG1, LOG, NOTICE, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL, and PANIC. Each level includes all the levels that follow it. The later the level, the fewer messages are sent. The default is NOTICE.
Note that LOG has a different rank here than in log_min_messages.
log_min_messages (enum)

Controls which message levels are written to the server log. Valid values are DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2, DEBUG1, INFO, NOTICE, WARNING, ERROR, LOG, FATAL, and PANIC. Each level includes all the levels that follow it. The later the level, the fewer messages are sent to the log. The default is WARNING. Note that LOG has a different rank here than in client_min_messages. Only superusers can change this setting.
"

>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Ian
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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