Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> writes:
> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 18:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> calestyo@scientia.net writes:
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html
>>> claims that log_filename is only used when logging_collector is enabled.
>> That is a true statement, as can easily be proven by looking at the
>> source code: nothing except syslogger.c pays any attention to the
>> Log_filename variable.
> Well nevertheless,... if set, I get no stderr output at all (which
> Debian uses per default as log source).
I wonder whether Debian's startup script is doing something that affects
this? Because it's pretty hard to explain otherwise.
regards, tom lane