Re: Proposal: Save user's original authenticated identity for logging

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 03:50:48PM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote:
>          # might need to retry if logging collector process is slow...
>          my $max_attempts = 180 * 10;
>          my $first_logfile;
>          for (my $attempts = 0; $attempts < $max_attempts; $attempts++)
>          {
>              $first_logfile = slurp_file($node->data_dir . '/' . $lfname);
> -            last if $first_logfile =~ m/\Q$expect_log_msg\E/;
> +
> +            # Don't include previously matched text in the search.
> +            $first_logfile = substr $first_logfile, $current_log_position;
> +            if ($first_logfile =~ m/\Q$expect_log_msg\E/g)
> +            {
> +                $current_log_position += pos($first_logfile);
> +                last;
> +            }
> +
>              usleep(100_000);

Looking at 0001, I am not much a fan of relying on the position of the
matching pattern in the log file.  Instead of relying on the logging
collector and one single file, why not just changing the generation of
the logfile and rely on the output of stderr by restarting the server?
That means less tests, no need to wait for the logging collector to do
its business, and it solves your problem.  Please see the idea with
the patch attached.  Thoughts?
--
Michael