Re: serverlog function (log_destination file)

Andreas Pflug wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
>>  
>>
>>> For adminstrator's convenience, I'd like to see a function that 
>>> returns the serverlog.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> What do you mean by "returns the serverlog"?  Are you going to magically
>> recover data that has gone to stderr or the syslogd daemon?  
>

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.

Regards,
Andreas