Re: Refactoring syslogger piping to simplify adding new log destinations

On 2019-Jul-10, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Maybe we can use something like a shared memory queue, working in a
> > similar way to wal_buffers -- where backends send over the shm queue to
> > syslogger, and syslogger writes in order to the actual log file.
>
> No way that's going to be acceptable for postmaster output.

Well, we can use both mechanisms simultaneously. Postmaster doesn't emit
all that much output anyway, so I don't think that's a concern. And
actually, we still need the pipes from the backend for the odd cases
where third party code writes to stderr, no?

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