Re: Enable Syslog on Postgres

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:55:38 +0800
"Bansal, Gaurav (Gaurav)" <gbansal(at)avaya(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed Postgres 8.2.5 on windows xp machine using the
> windows installer. I am trying to enable syslogs on Postgres so that
> all Postgress logs should be forwarded Syslog server. I have installed
> Syslog server WinSyslog on the same machine.
>
> I have modified 'log_destination' parameter value in postgresql.conf
> to 'syslog'. However, the database server fails to start and print
> following error message:
>
> FATAL: invalid value for parameter "log_destination": "syslog"

To my knowledge you can't use syslog on win32 with PostgreSQL. Use
eventlog.

Joshua D. Drake

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