Re: PostgreSQL roadmap for 8.2 and beyond.

Tom Lane wrote:

>Patrick Bakker <patrick@vanbelle.com> writes:
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>>It would be useful if you could toggle SQL statement logging without
>>restarting PostgreSQL and additionally if you could turn on selective SQL
>>logging. Additionally, it would be great if you could log SQL statements to
>>a separate file from the main log and in such a way that the statements are
>>seperated in an easily parsed form.
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>>The runtime toggling of statement logging would also be most useful if you
>>could toggle it outside of a particular session. This is where the selective
>>SQL logging would be useful I think. Some selectable options that could be
>>useful:
>> - by database
>> - by user
>> - by IP address
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>You do realize that the majority of that can be done today?  You need to
>study the available mechanism for setting GUC parameters a little more.
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Not quite, if you want to set it on databases you're not connected to, 
i.e. if you want to 'tap' a backend.

Regards,
Andreas