The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 15363
Logged by: Mario Emmenlauer
Email address: mario@emmenlauer.de
PostgreSQL version: 10.3
Operating system: Windows 7 x64
Description:
Dear All,
For the past days I've been plagued by a problem where starting postgres.exe
failed. The server postgres.exe would just not start, and stdout and stderr
where completely empty. Even with debugging mode -d 5 there was absolutely
no output. Finally I found the problem (a permission issue about being a
privileged user) with the help of a message in the system event log.
My question is not about the failed startup, but about the logging. I am
confused why the permission problem was logged to Windows system log instead
to stdout/stderr? My postgresql.conf is the default from initdb.exe and
contains only the default #log_destination = 'stderr'. The documentation at
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-logging.html
says "The default is to log to stderr only".
I'd like to run postgres.exe in my own watchdog, and it works nicely on
Linux and MacOSX. I was relying to see all issues on stdout/stderr. Is it
possible to do the same on Windows, to see absolutely all issues on
stdout/stderr?
Thanks a lot for the very great work, and all the best,
Mario Emmenlauer
