| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gilles Darold <gilles(dot)darold(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Patch to implement pg_current_logfile() function |
| Date: | 2016-11-09 01:51:46 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaZTxQaCB6Wx12fb4Hs4FTNuhTov7Lojmu9AU0nn+t21A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Karl O. Pinc <kop(at)meme(dot)com> wrote:
> To me, the CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME symbol should contain the name
> of the current log file. It does not. The CURRENT_LOG_FILENAME symbol
> holds the name of the file which itself contains the name of
> the log file(s) being written, plus the log file
> structure of each log file.
I agree that this is confusing.
> IMO, the name of the log files being written, as well as
> the type of data structure written into each log file,
> are meta-information about the logging data. So maybe
> the right name is LOG_METAINFO_DATAFILE.
+1 for something like this.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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