On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:21, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> Support configurable eventlog application names on Windows
>>
>> This allows different instances to use the eventlog with different
>> identifiers, by setting the event_source GUC, similar to how
>> syslog_ident works.
>>
>
> if i uncomment event_source in a linux env i get this error:
> """
> LOG: unrecognized configuration parameter "event_source" in file
> "/usr/local/pgsql/9.2/data/postgresql.conf" line 326
> FATAL: configuration file "/usr/local/pgsql/9.2/data/postgresql.conf"
> contains errors
> """
>
> this is because the definition of the GUC is inside an #ifdef, but the
> error message is not very informative...
> so, i tried to add a check_event_source (attached) and the error now
> looks like this
>
> """
> LOG: 22023: event_source can only be setted in windows builds
> LOCATION: call_string_check_hook, guc.c:8172
> FATAL: XX000: failed to initialize event_source to "PostgreSQL"
> LOCATION: InitializeOneGUCOption, guc.c:3959
> """
Ugh, you are right. I thought I had fixed that, but it seems not. Will fix.
I think the proper fix is to just remove the #ifdef though. There's
precedent with e.g. syslog_ident, that we just ignore the setting if
it's not supported on that platform.
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