Re: [PATCHES] serverlog function (log_destination file)

Were are we on this?

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Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >
> >This has got portability issues (fopen("ab"))
> >
> My doc says b is ignored on ansi systems, and recommends using it. Do
> you have other experiences?
>
> > and I don't care for its
> >use of malloc in preference to palloc either.
> >
> Do we already have an applicable memory context in the postmaster at
> that early stage of initialization?
>
> >Also, pg_logfile() will dump core if LogFileName returns null.
> >
> >
> How that?
>
> char *filename=LogFileName();
> if (filename)
> {
>        ...
>      free(filename);
> }
>
> >The bigger issue though is whether this is useful at all, if you cannot
> >solve the file rotation issue (and I don't think you can).  As
> >implemented, the secondary log file cannot be truncated without
> >restarting the postmaster.  I think that reduces it from a possibly
> >useful feature to a useless toy.
> >
> This patch isn't trying to be better on logfile handling than the
> default stderr redirection behavior, besides being able to access it
> through the postmaster. Seems you insist to name this a toy, many users
> don't.
>
> > (The fact that pg_logfile_length
> >returns int and not something wider is pretty silly in this connection.)
> >
> >
> 2GB logfile seems pretty big...
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
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