Re: enable logging of start time/cookie for all backend processes

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> The attached patch makes a very small but useful change to the
> behaviour of log_line_prefix, by enabling the start time (%s) and
> cookie (%c) logging to occur for all backends rather than just for
> session processes (i.e. backends started for a client connection). We
> actually need almost all of this patch, with or without the change in
> behaviour, so we can put the cookie in CSVlogs (which I'm still
> working on), since the cookie+line number make the natural primary key
> for the logs. The actual change in behaviour from this patch comes
> from the removal of 2 "if (MyProcPort)" lines in elog.c. Given that,
> can I sneak this in or should I wait for 8.4 given we're long past
> feature freeze?
>
> Most of this has been factored out (and cleaned up) from my previous
> CSVlog patch, so it's not new. I did that so that what is left when I
> finish will have a rather smaller footprint, as this part seemed
> fairly seperable.
>
>

I haven't seen a response to this. If there's no objection I intend to
apply this.

cheers

andrew