Re: serverlog function (log_destination file)

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
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>>Hm, what I missed is that pg_ctl's -l parameter converts to a simple
>>stderr redirection, and it's hardly possible to find out where it's going.
>>This could be solved by a file log_destination option or a
>>freopen(...,stderr) from a guc variable.
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>Any such patch would be rejected, because it would break the ability
>to pipe stderr into another program (such as logrotate). And what of
>the syslog case?
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Might it be sensible to have pg_ctl write its log destination (if any)
out to a file in the data dir? That plus the log_destination setting
might provide enough info at least for some common cases.

cheers

andrew