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 7:37 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 07:24:04PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> > The kind of scenario you mentioned didn't seem "normal users" oriented.  Note
> > that LOAD is restricted to superuser anyway.
>
> It seems completely silly to be worrying that setting a GUC in a
> particular way is too hard for somebody who's going to be installing
> a loadable extension.  In any case, if you wanted to force the issue
> you could set log_min_messages in the extension's _PG_init function.

Thanks Tom and Julien. I developed a simple external module called
pg_intercept_logs [1].

[1] https://github.com/BRupireddy/pg_intercept_server_logs

Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.