Re: BUG #6459: logging_collector=off but log_filename set inhibits logoutpu - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #6459: logging_collector=off but log_filename set inhibits logoutpu
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Msg-id 22832.1329715597@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #6459: logging_collector=off but log_filename set inhibits logoutpu  (Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>)
Responses Re: BUG #6459: logging_collector=off but log_filename set inhibits logoutpu
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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

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