On 26-02-2016 08:03, Robert Haas wrote: > I don't think we're going to accept this feature if it might fail in > corner cases. And that design seems awfully complex. > Agree.
> The obvious way to implement this, to me at least, seems to be for the > syslogger to write a file someplace in the data directory containing > the name of the current log file. When it switches log files, it > rewrites that file. When you want to know what the current logfile > is, you read that file. > That is not an elegant solution but it is simple. However, it is another file in PGDATA. I can live with that but if we have consensus, let's do it optional. > But there's one thing I'm slightly baffled about: why would you > actually need this? > The use case I have in mind is consume log file by using a tool like logstash. In this case, logstash accepts patterns and you can also use syslog for it. -- Euler Taveira Timbira - http://www.timbira.com.br/ PostgreSQL: Consultoria, Desenvolvimento, Suporte 24x7 e Treinamento -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
