Re: Unfiltered server logs routing via a new elog hook or existing emit_log_hook bypassing log_min_message check

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 6:44 PM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 06:40:05PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 6:32 PM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Unless I'm missing something you can already do all of that with the current
> > > hook, since as mentioned in the comment above the hook can disable the server's
> > > logging:
> > >
> > >          * Call hook before sending message to log.  The hook function is allowed
> > >          * to turn off edata->output_to_server, so we must recheck that afterward.
> > >
> > > So you can configure your server with a very verbose log_min_message, and have
> > > the same setting in your own extension to disable output_to_server after its
> > > own processing is done.
> >
> > No. The emit_log_hook isn't called for all the log messages, but only
> > when output_to_server = true which means, say my log_min_messages is
> > 'WARNING', the hook isn't called for the messages say elevel above it
> > (NOTICE, INFO, DEBUGX).
>
> I know.  What I said you could do is configure log_min_message to DEBUGX, so
> your extension sees everything you want it to see.  And *in your extension* set
> output_to_server to false if the level is not the *real level* you want to log.

I basically want to avoid normal users/developers setting any
parameter (especially the superuser-only log_min_message GUC, all
users might not have superuser access in production environments) or
making any changes to the running server except just LOADing the
server log routing/intercepting extension.

Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.