Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> Is there any good way to ask the server what log file name it's currently
> writing to? I was trying to write something that does a "tail" on the
> current log, and was hoping there was a simple way to figure out which
> file that goes against. Looking for the latest timestamp or running
> strftime would both work I guess, those just seemed a little heavy (was
> hoping for an "alias"-sized answer) to figure out something that the
> server certainly knows.
Well, the log collector subprocess knows it, but nothing else does.
regards, tom lane