On Monday 29 December 2008 11:28:13 am Rob Richardson wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> A customer reported an error generated by our database. However, many
> of our functions have errors in RAISE EXCEPTION statements, in which the
> % character was omitted. The error message the customer saw was
> complaining that there were too many arguments to a RAISE statement. We
> were able to find the function that was throwing the error by using
> PGAdmin, opening the Server Status window, going to the Log File tab,
> and finding approximately when the error occurred.
>
> But it would have been easier to find the problem if we could have
> searched the logs. There's no search function in the log file window.
> Also, there's no apparent way to export the file. Also, I can't even
> use copy and paste. So, how can I export the error messages into a
> searchable text file?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> RobR
I don't use PgAdmin so I can't help you with that part. If you want to search
the file use ~/PGDATA/postgresql.conf to find the log directory and read the
file directly with the text editor of you choice.
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Adrian Klaver
aklaver@comcast.net
