Re: Syslog Facility Patch

Larry Rosenman writes:

> * Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> [001113 17:43]:
> > Larry Rosenman writes:
> >
> > > Ok, You guys are probably tired of me, BUT, here is another one, that
> > > adds the facility to set the program name used in syslog.
> > > (this includes the other ones).
> >
> > Why would one want to do that? ISTM that that would just be a means to
> > play games with the sysadmin.
> test vs. production postgresDB's, virtual users (ala uunet), multiple
> different pg's listening on different ports.

Okay, but you can't make these options PGC_SIGHUP unless you make sure to
close and re-open the syslog channel whenever these options
change. Probably ought to be PGC_POSTMASTER.

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