Re: location of postmaster.log on V8 Win 32 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: location of postmaster.log on V8 Win 32
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Msg-id 87hdqgpi0f.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to location of postmaster.log on V8 Win 32  ("Anony Mous" <A.Mous@shaw.ca>)
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"Anony Mous" <A.Mous@shaw.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In my postgresql.conf file I've got
>
> log_destination = 'stderr'
>
> Should this option not create a postmaster.log file somewhere on my system
> (it's nowhere to be found)?  Apologies in advance if I'm just being stupid.

Depends on where the start script sends the stderr of the postmaster
process (or the -l option to 'pg_ctl start').  Some systems send it to
/dev/null by default.

-Doug
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