Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
>> How about creating a log-writing-process? Postmaster could write to the
>> log files directly until the log-writer is up and running, then all
>> processes can send their log output through the log-writer.
>
> We *have* a log-writing process. The problem is in getting the data to it.
By that I assume you mean the bgwriter, I thought that was for WAL data,
I didn't think it could or perhaps should be used for normal log file
writing, but I also know I'm way outside my comfort area in talking
about this, so excuse the noise if this is way off base.