On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: >> * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> The payoff >>> (getting %U) seems quite out of proportion to the potential downsides >>> of making a change of this type at this late date. > >> I'd be happy to go back to the original patch/idea of just the simple >> addition of %U as an option for log_line_prefix. I'd be quite >> frustrated to not have *any* way to log the current role in 9.1. I >> don't think anyone is going to be too bent out of shape that we can't do >> it with CSV initially, so long as we agree that we'll try and add that >> for 9.2. > > Given that this has been like this right along, I don't see why it's > all that urgent to force a half-baked solution into 9.1. I'm also > concerned that if we do do that, you'll lose motivation to work on > cleaning it up for 9.2 ;-)
Trying to arm-twist people into working on A before we're willing to give them B doesn't necessary serve us very well. I'd rather leave the problem of making the CSV format more flexible to someone who is really motivated to work on *that problem*, whether that person ends up being Stephen or not. Just my $0.02. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
