Re: pgAdminIII and the LogFile - useless for debugging

hi scott!

if you only need the tail command, you will probably find this package
_very_ useful, and with it you probably will not need cygwin:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

hope this will help you with your work until you will be able to manage
everything you need from within pgadmin.

regards,
M

Scott Chapman wrote:
> pgAdminIII 1.2.0 PostgreSQL 8.0
>
> I moved over from Linux to do some work with Pg on Windows. Windows
> doesn't have a "tail" command unless you use cygwin tail it from there.
>
> So, I was quite happy to see the Tools->Server Status->LogFile option in
> pgAdminIII.
>
> The first thing I noticed is that it doesn't "tail". The scroll bar
> stays where it was an you move it manually. That's something I can live
> with but I'd love to see it able to put the latest queries on top or
> scroll the bar and allow you to scroll back to get into the history buffer.
>
> Anyway, I turned my logging level to LOG and my log_statement to all so
> I can see what is actually being SELECTED. This is a great way to debug
> your web application in my experience. Imagine my disappointment when
> the log file started filling up with this junk:
>
> 2005-03-01 17:39:04 LOG: statement: SELECT pg_file_length('C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_log/postgresql-2005-03-01_173622.log') AS len
> 2005-03-01 17:39:04 LOG: statement: SELECT len FROM pg_file_stat($1) AS
> s(len int8, c timestamp, a timestamp, m timestamp, i bool)
> 2005-03-01 17:39:04 CONTEXT: SQL function "pg_file_length" during inlining
>
> ...making it virtually completely useless.
>
> PgAdmin needs to find another way to get the log file length besides a
> SQL query to the database! I'm off to deal with cygwin now. :(
>
> Is this the place to put in enhancement requests/bug notices?