Re: BUG #13594: pg_ctl.exe redirects stderr to Windows Events Log if stderr is redirected to pipe

On 1.9.2015 3:43, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Egon Kocjan wrote:
>> 2) However there is no output on stderr when pg_ctl is running as a
>> subprocess of a service. So I would still have to patch pg_ctl if I want
>> stderr. I haven't looked into elog.c yet, maybe stderr from there would be
>> good to have as well? So far, pg_ctl output and pg_logs\* was enough for me
>> to debug the installations. Technically, I could also monitor Windows event
>> log and dump events on the fly into my report file. But it seems simpler to
>> just patch PostgreSQL locally to force stderr and reuse all the logic from
>> the Unix port...
> I wished we had such a switch a couple of times and I have as well
> some code paths that would benefit a redirection of those logs to
> stderr instead of the event log. Still this sounds like a new feature
> to me. Hence, what about for example adding a Windows-only option that
> can be used to enforce where logs are redirected, let's say
> --log-output with the following values:
> - default, which is what we have now
> - stderr, to enforce the output to stderr
> - eventlog, to enforce redirection to the event logs.
> Would you like to work on this patch?
>

Yes, I would start with pg_ctl itself. Then we can look into what else
needs to be done for the backend, I'm not yet 100% sure how it all fits
together.

Regards
Egon