Re: Patch to implement pg_current_logfile() function

From: Gilles Darold <gilles(dot)darold(at)dalibo(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch to implement pg_current_logfile() function
Date: 2016-11-12 13:59:44
Message-ID: 87e8b68c-f9b5-8327-6c42-12761fa0a1cb@dalibo.com
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Le 09/11/2016 à 02:51, Robert Haas a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Karl O. Pinc <kop(at)meme(dot)com> wrote:
>> To me, the CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME symbol should contain the name
>> of the current log file. It does not. The CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME symbol
>> holds the name of the file which itself contains the name of
>> the log file(s) being written, plus the log file
>> structure of each log file.
> I agree that this is confusing.
>
>> IMO, the name of the log files being written, as well as
>> the type of data structure written into each log file,
>> are meta-information about the logging data. So maybe
>> the right name is LOG_METAINFO_DATAFILE.
> +1 for something like this.
>

Ok, it will be changed it in next patch.

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Gilles Darold
Consultant PostgreSQL
http://dalibo.com - http://dalibo.org

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