Re: What does log_destination = csvlog mean?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > In reading through our documentation, I am unclear how "log_destination
> > = csvlog" works. It seems to me that 'cvslog' is a format-output type,
> > not a real destination, or rather it is a special output format for
> > stderr. Is this accurate? I would like to clarify our documentation.
> >
> >
>
> CSV logs can in fact only be delivered via redirected stderr, i.e.
> csvlog requires that logging_collector be on. So in a sense it's both a
> format and a destination.
>
> There is a strong technical reason for that, namely that only by doing
> that can be be sure that CSV logs won't get lines multiplexed, which
> would make loading them back into a table impossible. We invented a
> whole (simple) protocol between the backends and the syslogger just to
> handle that.

That's what I thought; thanks.

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