> >> 3) Include in postmaster but running on a separate thread
> >(not process
> >> as (2))
> >> Advantages: No extra binary. No extra process. Most integration.
> >> Disadvantages: Probably larger impact on postmaster code.
> >
> >This is the best way to go, I think. This way we can automatically
> >redirect stderr to the event logger and other nice stuff like that.
>
> How can we do this in this case when we can't do it from another
> process?
> (Note - only "boot messages" are interesting anyway. Once the ereport
> code is activated (and after GUC loads), we will report directly to
the
> eventlog.
Right...that makes sense. I guess it makes little difference on this
point then. I suppose even pg_ctl could handle the boot messages
('server is up', 'server is down', etc.), so it makes no difference to
the postmaster whatsoever.
Whatever is the easiest/safest, then.
Merlin
