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Re: [HACKERS] Suggestions

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>

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From: Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>
To: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-05-05T10:53:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Hi.
> I have a suggestion. I would be interested in implementing it if ppl think
> it is a good idea. 
> 
> Why not have a default location where postgres writes its log files. The
> current way of doing it seems to be a little klunky. 
> I have an either/or suggested fix. 
> a) add a switch to specify where the info and the errors files go,
> /var/log/postgres/info and maybe /var/log/postgres/errors
> 
> b) write all the stuff to syslog
> 

Only if this is all optional (through runtime switches or whatever) so we
can make sure it doesn't need root intervention to get postgresql installed.

Andrew

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