Re: Bug#98565: postgresql logs notices with GMT timestamps in syslog (fwd)

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian(at)airs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug#98565: postgresql logs notices with GMT timestamps in syslog (fwd)
Date: 2001-05-24 18:07:49
Message-ID: sik8364o3u.fsf@daffy.airs.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > Notices are being timestamped in GMT in the syslog, instead of local
> > time like all other log entries. Here's a fragment from my syslog:
>
> Curious. I always assumed that syslog timestamps were supplied by the
> syslog daemon, but to make this happen they'd have to be supplied in the
> syslog client process (viz. the Postgres process).

That is correct. The syslog(3) function puts a timestamp in front of
the message, and writes it to the syslog daemon. The string written
to the daemon starts with <N>, where N is the priority and facility
or'ed together.

Ian

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