Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> Hm, what I missed is that pg_ctl's -l parameter converts to a simple
> stderr redirection, and it's hardly possible to find out where it's going.
> This could be solved by a file log_destination option or a
> freopen(...,stderr) from a guc variable.
Any such patch would be rejected, because it would break the ability
to pipe stderr into another program (such as logrotate). And what of
the syslog case?
regards, tom lane