Re: Proposal: Adding json logging

> Exactly what are you logging here ??? Why would I need to see a
> multi-dimensional array in the log ?

If I wanted to capture the location of errors my clients are encountering on their postgres clusters in detail, I would need to parse the 'LOCATION' string in their log entries, parse out the filename by splitting on the ':' character of that same line, and parse out the line number. Essentially any programmatic analysis of logs, as it stands today, would require string parsing. I'd rather have an organized, logical representation of information which I suggest is not possible in a flat, single dimensional structure.

{
"level":"ERROR",
"meta":{
"line_number":23,
"file": "parse_relation.c",
},
"detail:{
"condition_name"...,
"error_code"...,
},
time:....
}