Re: bug on log generation ?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug on log generation ?
Date: 2022-08-08 16:38:22
Message-ID: 20220808163822.l4eh6ntev54verjd@awork3.anarazel.de
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2022-08-08 12:19:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2022-08-08 10:32:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Another idea is that some of the write() calls are failing --- elog.c
> >> doesn't check for that.
>
> > I was suspicious of those as well. It might be a good idea to at least write
> > such failures to stderr, otherwise it's just about impossible to debug. Not
> > that stderr will always point anywhere useful...
>
> Uh ... what we are talking about is a failure to write to stderr.
> It's not likely that adding more output will help.

I forgot that we don't preserve the original stderr in some other fd, likely
because the logger itself still has it open and can use write_stderr().

Greetings,

Andres Freund

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Justin Pryzby 2022-08-08 16:44:31 Re: 2022-08-11 release announcement draft
Previous Message Tom Lane 2022-08-08 16:20:59 Re: make update-po@master stops at pg_upgrade