On 27.06.2011 12:38, Reinhard Max wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 at 12:10, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>> Max, you're the maintainer of the PostgreSQL SuSE RPMs, right?
>
> my first name is Reinhard, but aside from that, you are right. ;)
Sorry :-)
>> Can you comment on the above?
>
> I enabled it many years ago when (IIRC) it was needed in conjunction
> with "logging_collector = on" to get proper logging and especially log
> rotation. It might very well be that it is not needed anymore and
> suggestions for doing it better are welcome.
It seems to me you could just stop setting silent_mode. If you want to
capture any early errors at startup into a log file, like silent_mode
does to postmaster.log, you can redirect stdout and stderr in the
startup script. pg_ctl start -l postmaster.log will do the same.
-- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
