Re: write_pipe_chunks patch messes up early error message output

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think offhand that the correct semantics of the flag are "we have
>> redirected our original stderr into a pipe for syslogger",

> We could expose syslogger's redirection_done flag, which I think has the 
> semantics you want.

Yeah, that would work.  You'd have to get rid of the current ad-hoc
method by which it is propagated to the syslogger child process
(EXEC_BACKEND case), because now it will have to be propagated to all
children; so postmaster.c should handle it in BackendParameters.
        regards, tom lane