Re: [PROPOSAL] Client Log Output Filtering

On 4/4/16 12:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Steele  writes:
>> On 4/4/16 11:21 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I had in mind a patch that simply added LOG_SERVER_ONLY as another define
>>> and did whatever seemed appropriate documentation-wise.  I see no reason
>>> to touch the places that are currently dealing with client communication
>>> failures.
>
>> I still prefer to collapse them into a single value for the current
>> implementation.
>
> Right, that's what I had in mind, sorry if I was unclear.  I agree that
> considering LOG_SERVER_ONLY as the main name and COMMERROR as an alias
> is reasonable.
>
>> COMMERROR was not documented in sources.sgml so LOG_SERVER_ONLY wasn't
>> either.  I'm happy to do that that though it's not clear to me where it
>> would go.  I could just put it in the general description.
>
> Ah, I thought I remembered that the specific elevels were documented
> there, but I see they're only documented in elog.h.  Doesn't seem like
> it's incumbent on this patch to improve that.
>
> Committed with a quick pgindent fixup.

Thank you, and I appreciate you suggesting this simple solution.

The advantage of this over the other possible solutions is that I can 
easily port the feature back to 9.5 by defining LOG_SERVER_ONLY when 
building pgaudit for that version.  That's a big win in my mind.

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net