On 15 sep 2009, at 07.21, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp > wrote:
>
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
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>> Second, data transfer from the backends is now in the form of
>> structured data, and the actual logging message is put together in
>> the
>> syslogger
>
> I'd like to have an opposite approach -- per-backend log files.
> Syslogger and appending logs at only one file will be a performance
> bottleneck when we want write a lot of logs. Per-backend log files
> like "postgres.<backend-id>.log" would be a help then.
>
That would make the log more or less completely useless for any of the
situations I've been in.
I can see each backend writing it, certainly, but keeping it in
separate files makes it useless without post processing, which in most
vases means useless for day-to-day work.
/Magnus