and here's the patch
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> This patch implements the protocol Tom suggested for writing to the
> syslogger pipe. It seems to pass my tests (basically "make
> installcheck" against a server with stderr redirection turned on and
> log_statement set to 'all').
>
> The effect of this should be to prevent two problems:
> . partial messages get written to the log file, which messes with
> rotation, and
> . messages from various backends get interleaved, causing garbled logs.
>
> Please review ASAP. I want to get this applied soon so that a) it gets
> wider testing and b) I can use it as the basis for the adapted CSV log
> patch. If this is acceptable I intend to backpatch this all the way to
> wherever we started using the syslogger pipe (was that 8.0?).
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>