Re: Enable logging requires restart

On 24 September 2010 13:17, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
>> At the moment, to enable logging, a service restart is required.  Is
>> there any way to remove this requirement or is there a fundamental
>> reason why it must always be like that?
>
> Are you speaking of the logging_collector GUC?  I think the difficulty
> is - if you wanted to turn this on without a restart, how would you
> get the collector's stdin to be each backend's stdout/stderr?  I don't
> see any way to do it, actually.

This is probably blasphemy, but "off" would log to a symbolic link
pointing to /dev/null, which is repointed to a log_file if reloaded
with "on"?

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