"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> In some cases it writes to the eventlog instead of stderr.
> Yes, this is what's happening. Odd though, considering that I have:
> #log_destination = 'stderr'
> In my out-of-the-box config.
pg_ctl doesn't read the config file, though. Probably we need to
make write_stderr aware that it's running in an interactive program
rather than in the postmaster, and never use the eventlog in this context.
regards, tom lane