Re: [HACKERS] Suggestions

> On Sun, 3 May 1998, Michael Richards wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> > I have a suggestion. I would be interested in implementing it if ppl think
> > it is a good idea.
> >
> > Why not have a default location where postgres writes its log files. The
> > current way of doing it seems to be a little klunky.
> > I have an either/or suggested fix.
> > a) add a switch to specify where the info and the errors files go,
> > /var/log/postgres/info and maybe /var/log/postgres/errors
> >
> > b) write all the stuff to syslog
>
> b) is the preferred way of doing it...it should just be a matter
> of adding it to backend/utils/elog.c ...
>

One problem might be that postgres can write _a_ _lot_ of messages to
the log and I would not want to fill my /var/log partition with them as
this would interfere with other logging.

-dg

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