Re: [HACKERS] Suggestions

From: Andrew Martin <martin(at)biochemistry(dot)ucl(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: Michael Richards <miker(at)scifair(dot)acadiau(dot)ca>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Suggestions
Date: 1998-05-05 10:53:26
Message-ID: 199805051053.KAA17416@bsmir06.biochem.ucl.ac.uk
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> Hi.
> I have a suggestion. I would be interested in implementing it if ppl think
> it is a good idea.
>
> Why not have a default location where postgres writes its log files. The
> current way of doing it seems to be a little klunky.
> I have an either/or suggested fix.
> a) add a switch to specify where the info and the errors files go,
> /var/log/postgres/info and maybe /var/log/postgres/errors
>
> b) write all the stuff to syslog
>

Only if this is all optional (through runtime switches or whatever) so we
can make sure it doesn't need root intervention to get postgresql installed.

Andrew

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