Re: get current log file

On 26-02-2016 08:03, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't think we're going to accept this feature if it might fail in
> corner cases.  And that design seems awfully complex.
> 
Agree.

> The obvious way to implement this, to me at least, seems to be for the
> syslogger to write a file someplace in the data directory containing
> the name of the current log file.  When it switches log files, it
> rewrites that file.  When you want to know what the current logfile
> is, you read that file.
> 
That is not an elegant solution but it is simple. However, it is another
file in PGDATA. I can live with that but if we have consensus, let's do
it optional.

> But there's one thing I'm slightly baffled about: why would you
> actually need this?
> 
The use case I have in mind is consume log file by using a tool like
logstash. In this case, logstash accepts patterns and you can also use
syslog for it.


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