Re: Add support for logging the current role

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.

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