Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > In reading through our documentation, I am unclear how "log_destination > > = csvlog" works. It seems to me that 'cvslog' is a format-output type, > > not a real destination, or rather it is a special output format for > > stderr. Is this accurate? I would like to clarify our documentation. > > > > > > CSV logs can in fact only be delivered via redirected stderr, i.e. > csvlog requires that logging_collector be on. So in a sense it's both a > format and a destination. > > There is a strong technical reason for that, namely that only by doing > that can be be sure that CSV logs won't get lines multiplexed, which > would make loading them back into a table impossible. We invented a > whole (simple) protocol between the backends and the syslogger just to > handle that.
That's what I thought; thanks. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
