Scott Chapman wrote:
> pgAdminIII 1.2.0 PostgreSQL 8.0
>
> I moved over from Linux to do some work with Pg on Windows. Windows
> doesn't have a "tail" command unless you use cygwin tail it from there.
>
> So, I was quite happy to see the Tools->Server Status->LogFile option in
> pgAdminIII.
>
> The first thing I noticed is that it doesn't "tail". The scroll bar
> stays where it was an you move it manually. That's something I can live
> with but I'd love to see it able to put the latest queries on top or
> scroll the bar and allow you to scroll back to get into the history buffer.
>
> Anyway, I turned my logging level to LOG and my log_statement to all so
> I can see what is actually being SELECTED. This is a great way to debug
> your web application in my experience. Imagine my disappointment when
> the log file started filling up with this junk:
>
> 2005-03-01 17:39:04 LOG: statement: SELECT pg_file_length('C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_log/postgresql-2005-03-01_173622.log') AS len
> 2005-03-01 17:39:04 LOG: statement: SELECT len FROM pg_file_stat($1) AS
> s(len int8, c timestamp, a timestamp, m timestamp, i bool)
> 2005-03-01 17:39:04 CONTEXT: SQL function "pg_file_length" during inlining
>
> ...making it virtually completely useless.
I'm struck by this myself, you can set the automatic refresh to 0 to get
the log ony on demand.
>
> PgAdmin needs to find another way to get the log file length besides a
> SQL query to the database!
No, the real trouble is that logfile isn't quite convenient for client
side debugging. If you know e.g. M$SQL's profiler, you'd agree that
there's nothing similar on pgsql. I'd like to see it, so please head
over to pgsql-hackers for that. There's currently a thread "logging as
inserts" active, which could be a basis for this.
Regards,
Andreas