Re: Add support for logging the current role

On 02/16/2011 04:24 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Frost<sfrost@snowman.net>  wrote:
>> * Andrew Dunstan (andrew@dunslane.net) wrote:
>>> On 02/15/2011 11:13 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>>> Think I suggested that at one point.  I'm all for doing that on a major
>>>> version change like this one, but I think we already had some concerns
>>>> about that on this thread (Andrew maybe?).
>>> I could live with it for a release if I thought we had a clear path
>>> ahead, but I think there are some design issues that we need to
>>> think about before we start providing for header lines and variable
>>> formats in CSV logs, particularly w.r.t. log rotation etc. So I'm
>>> slightly nervous about going ahead with this right now.
>> I believe the suggestion that Robert and I were talking about above was
>> to just unilatterally change the CSV log file output format to include
>> current_role.  No header lines, no variable output format, etc.
>>
>> I do think we can make header lines and variable output work, if we can
>> get agreement on what the semantics should be.
> I think we're back to not having a consensus on a reasonable way to
> proceed here.  Let's take this up again for 9.2.
>

That's up to you. I can certainly live with what is suggested in 
Stephen's penultimate para above.

cheers

andrew