On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 01:17:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, May  5, 2013 at 01:21:12AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> > > Well, basically, if you used %c in log_line_prefix, the session id was
> > > not a fixed length, so your output shifted around based on the pid, see:
> > >
> > >         
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20121012185127.gb31...@momjian.us
> > >
> > > Always showing four digits seems to give greater consistency to the
> > > log output.
> > 
> > Makes sense as long as your PIDs stay below 0x10000, but on OS X it makes
> > it less consistent IMHO, as you still end up with a varying number of 
> > digits:
> > 
> > 5184ea1f.15ed2 LOG:  database system was shut down at 2013-05-04 19:59:41 
> > JST
> > 5184ea1f.15ed1 LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
> > 5184ea1f.15ed6 LOG:  autovacuum launcher started
> > 5184ea23.15edb ERROR:  column "x" does not exist at character 8
> > 5184ea23.15edb STATEMENT:  select x;
> > 51852890.0a0a ERROR:  column "x" does not exist at character 8
> > 51852890.0a0a STATEMENT:  select x;
> > 
> > (tested using 9.3 HEAD)
> 
> OK, that's a serious argument that we should just revert this entire
> change to do padding of %c.  If we can't do it consistently on all
> patforms, it seems undesirable.  What is the Windows max for getpid()?

Not sure about Windows, but the limit on systems using the Linux kernel is
based on the kernel.pid_max sysctl.  That setting defaults to 32768, but I can
set it as high as 4194304 (2^22) on the system most handy.  When I last used
32-bit IRIX 6.5, its PIDs seemed to never wrap; a web search suggests it had a
limit of 2^31.  POSIX permits any signed integral type for pid_t.  To make %c
fixed-width, we could check pid_t at build time or unconditionally allow for
63-bit PIDs.

-- 
Noah Misch
EnterpriseDB                                 http://www.enterprisedb.com


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