Re: How could we make it simple to access the log as a table?

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 05:53:55PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hackers,
> 
> There's a lot of great information in the postgres logs.  While we
> eventually want to get more sophisticated about providing users with
> status and history information, for 9.3 it would be really nice to
> just offer the current logs in system view format.
> 
> Certainly this can be done ad-hoc using CSV format and csv_fdw.
> However, such setups are fragile due to log rotation and other
> issues.  It seems like we could come up with a better way.  Ideas?

Would it help to automate this stuff with that CSV format?  The trick,
as I see it, is to make those on-disk log files be partitions of a
table.

Stephen Frost's point is well-taken, but I'm not sure we need to make
it a blocker for this.

Cheers,
David.
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