Re: Feature request: better debug messages

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Brian Hurt wrote:
>> So I thought  upping the debug level of postgres would help, by adding
>> a -o '-d 5' to  the pg_ctl command line.  The log file that gets spit
>> out in this case  is attached.  What is noticeable is how unhelpfull
>> it is. 

> I think this is just the stderr.  The rest of the error messages are
> going somewhere else -- syslog maybe?

Since we see that the logger subprocess was running, presumably the
messages went wherever the logger has been told to put them.  All that
you're going to see on stderr is messages that came out before the
logger got launched.
        regards, tom lane