Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> If not I have missed something - why would the syslogger be trying to
>> write to its output (possibly for the second time) regardless of what
>> Log_destination is set to?
>>
>
> You're mistaken: within the syslogger process, stderr doesn't point to
> the same place as the target file (it's normally the same as the
> original postmaster stderr). The reason the code is set up to try to
> write both stderr and the target file is to maximize the chance that an
> internally generated error in syslogger will get reported *someplace*.
>
>
>
OK, thanks, I'll try to make that a bit clearer in a comment.
cheers
andrew