Re: configuring the postmaster.log

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc Mamin" <M(dot)Mamin(at)intershop(dot)de>
Cc: "Andy Shellam \(Mailing Lists\)" <andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: configuring the postmaster.log
Date: 2007-01-11 15:35:42
Message-ID: 18162.1168529742@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Marc Mamin" <M(dot)Mamin(at)intershop(dot)de> writes:
> Sorry , my mistake:
> The "postmaster.log" that I mentioned is defined in our Postgres start
> script:

> startproc -u <@DB_USER@> $PGSQL_BIN -D <@INSTALL_DIR@>/postgresql-data \
> <@INSTALL_DIR@>/postgresql/postmaster.log 2>&1

That file will be used until the postmaster has launched the
error-logger subprocess, and never again. There is no situation where
the same log message would be written to both places.

regards, tom lane

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