command-line option for logfile

A command-line option for specifying the logfile would be very helpful
on WIN32.

When setting up PostgreSQL to run as an NT service, the only way I can
see to redirect stdout/stderr to a file is to invoke postmaster via a
wrapper sh/bash process. I suspect that this wrapper process would
have to hang around as long as postmaster is running, although it
might be possible to do an exec to overlay it. It would be nice to
avoid this wrapper process.

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:01:10PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > There should be an option to put the server log somewhere, either a file
> > > or maybe a pipe, e.g.,
> > > pg_ctl -l logfile
> > > pg_ctl -P 'magic-log-rotator -x -y -z'
> >
> > Or we could just switch over to syslog as the standard log
> > destination...
>
> Not as long as all the good stuff goes to stderr.

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