On 24 September 2010 13:17, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: >> At the moment, to enable logging, a service restart is required. Is >> there any way to remove this requirement or is there a fundamental >> reason why it must always be like that? > > Are you speaking of the logging_collector GUC? I think the difficulty > is - if you wanted to turn this on without a restart, how would you > get the collector's stdin to be each backend's stdout/stderr? I don't > see any way to do it, actually.
This is probably blasphemy, but "off" would log to a symbolic link pointing to /dev/null, which is repointed to a log_file if reloaded with "on"? -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
