Re: Instrumenting and Logging in JDBC

Barry Lind wrote:

> First I would ask what kind of logging you are talking about?  I find 
> that simply turning on debug output on the server to print out the sql 
> statements being executed is generally all I need for logging, and the 
> server already supports that.
> 
> If your proposal it so use log4j for logging, then I would be opposed. 
> While logging is a good idea, having yet another non-postgresql 
> component that needs to be installed in order to build and/or run the 
> jdbc driver is in my opionion a bad idea.  I already dislike the fact 
> that I have to install ant just to build the driver.  It was so much 
> easier under 7.0 when make was all that was required.
> 
> thanks,
> --Barry
> 
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> btoback@mac.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> One more question/comment.
>>
>> In order to track down the problem with the interaction between 
>> WebObjects and the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, I had to insert a fair 
>> amount of logging. This logging will be useful for anyone else who's 
>> in a similar position, trying to get some piece of middleware to work 
>> with PostgreSQL. If I switch to using log4j (see 
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j for information), would it be useful 
>> to submit the logging calls as a patch?
>>
>> I think it would be extremely useful, but I don't know the 
>> philosophies or mindset of the PostgreSQL developers, so I thought I'd 
>> ask.
>>
>> -- Bruce
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