Re: WIP patch - INSERT-able log statements - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: WIP patch - INSERT-able log statements
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Msg-id 20070219164322.GS28395@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: WIP patch - INSERT-able log statements  ("Guillaume Smet" <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: WIP patch - INSERT-able log statements
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Guillaume Smet escribió:
> On 2/19/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> >I don't think the syslog option is so nice to use these days; the
> >redirect_stderr stuff is more powerful and easy to use.
>
> Did you already analyze logs of a highly loaded platform using stderr?
> It's impossible to guarantee the consistency of the queries because
> you can have:
> Query 1 Line 1
> Query 2 Line 1
> Query 3 Line 1
> Query 1 Line 2
> Query 2 Line 2
> Query 1 Line 3
> Query 3 Line 2
> (each query is run on a different backend). With stderr you don't have
> sufficient information to know the query you should append the text
> to. Syslog adds useful context information (pid, command line, command
> number) which allows you to guarantee the consistency.

So add the session ID (%c) to log_line_prefix.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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