Re: change name of redirect_stderr?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: change name of redirect_stderr?
Date: 2007-08-10 21:34:07
Message-ID: 46BCD9CF.1020909@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> Before I wrap up the CSVlog stuff, we need to decide whether or not to
>> change the name of the redirect_stderr setting, and if so to what. The
>> reason is that with CSVlogs it will no longer apply just to stderr (we
>> will require it to be on for CSVlogs, in fact).
>>
>
>
>> I suggest "redirect_logs", although it's arguably too general as it
>> doesn't apply to syslog/eventlog.
>>
>
> Perhaps it should be named analogously to stats_start_collector,
> ie think of the syslogger process as a "log collector". I don't
> much like "log_start_collector" though --- "start_log_collector"
> seems far less confusing as to where the verb is.
>
>
>

Nobody else seems to care much. I'll go with "start_log_collector".

cheers

andrew

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