There is a "postgres" option -o which can redirect the server output to a
file.  The postmaster output will still go to stderr.  Does anyone recall
how this was supposed to be useful?

Interesting code (from elog):

    /* NOTE: debug file is typically pointed at stderr */
    write(Debugfile, msg_buf, len);

    ...

    /*
     * fflush here is just to improve the odds that we get to see
     * the error message, in case things are so hosed that
     * proc_exit crashes. [...]
     */
    fflush(stdout);
    fflush(stderr);

Fat chance.  ;-)

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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• Re: And what about that Debugfile? at 2001-06-06 21:25:21 from Tom Lane

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