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 ...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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