Re: COPYable logs status

Tom Lane wrote:
> Markus Schiltknecht  writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> We *have* a log-writing process.  The problem is in getting the data to it.
> 
>> Remember the imessages approach I'm using for Postgres-R? It passes 
>> messages around using shared memory and signals the receiver on incoming 
>> data. It's not perfect, sure, but it's a general solution to a common 
>> problem.
> 
> Uh-huh.  And how will you get libc's dynamic-link code to buy into
> issuing link error messages this way?  Not to mention every other bit
> of code that might get linked into the backend?

I was refering to the 'getting data to another process' problem. If 
that's the problem (as you said upthread) imessages might be a solution.

> Trapping what comes out of stderr is simply too useful a behavior to lose.

Sure. I've never said anything against that.

Regards

Markus