Re: Add support for logging the current role

Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> The payoff
>> (getting %U) seems quite out of proportion to the potential downsides
>> of making a change of this type at this late date.

> I'd be happy to go back to the original patch/idea of just the simple
> addition of %U as an option for log_line_prefix. I'd be quite
> frustrated to not have *any* way to log the current role in 9.1. I
> don't think anyone is going to be too bent out of shape that we can't do
> it with CSV initially, so long as we agree that we'll try and add that
> for 9.2.

Given that this has been like this right along, I don't see why it's
all that urgent to force a half-baked solution into 9.1. I'm also
concerned that if we do do that, you'll lose motivation to work on
cleaning it up for 9.2 ;-)

regards, tom lane