Re: syslog by default?

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, that makes sense.  My only question is how many platforms _don't_
> > have syslog.  If it is only NT and QNX, I think we can live with using
> > it by default if it exists.
> 
> There seems to be a certain amount of confusion here.  The proposal at
> hand was to make configure set up to *compile* the syslog support
> whenever possible.  Not to *use* syslog by default.  Unless we change
> the default postgresql.conf --- which I would be against --- we will
> still log to stderr by default.
> 
> Given that, I'm not sure that Peter's argument about losing
> functionality is right; the analogy to readline support isn't exact.
> Perhaps what we should do is (a) always build syslog support if
> possible, and (b) at runtime, complain if syslog logging is requested
> but we don't have it available.

Did we decide to compile in syslog support by default?  I thought so.

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