From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: change name of redirect_stderr? |
Date: | 2007-08-14 15:51:59 |
Message-ID: | 200708141551.l7EFpxO07126@momjian.us |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > >
> > > >> I suggest "redirect_logs", although it's arguably too general as it
> > > >> doesn't apply to syslog/eventlog.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps it should be named analogously to stats_start_collector,
> > > > ie think of the syslogger process as a "log collector". I don't
> > > > much like "log_start_collector" though --- "start_log_collector"
> > > > seems far less confusing as to where the verb is.
> > >
> > > Nobody else seems to care much. I'll go with "start_log_collector".
> >
> > Are we trying to use log_* prefixes, e.g. log_start_collector?
>
> That sounds like you want to log when the collector starts, which is not
> the case and is confusing -- what collector is it talking about? This
> is about starting the log collector.
Yea, good point. I was just wondering because I don't see 'start' used
in anywhere at the beginning of a GUC variable.
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