Andreas wrote: > > AFAICS, we have some alternatives: > - try to grab the currently created files/syslog/eventlog. > Seems hard to > do, because we'd depend on additional external tools. > - redirect stderr to a postgresql.conf known file. > Disadvantage: breaks > piping. > - maintain a sharedMem for the latest messages. Disadvantage: limited > space, no access to older entries after postmaster restart. > - additional log_destination "file". Disadvantage: Yet Another File > besides the redirected stderr, but this seems a minor problem. >
Another alternative would be to add code to the admin tool to get the log via scp or a similar method. IMHO PostgreSQL is doing the right thing here by using the OS logging, and breaking that isn't a good idea when there are other ways to solve the problem. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match