On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:55:03PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Hello, > > So it is possible to do this in other ways but I thought it might be > interesting to allow people to define fifo or pipe as a > log_desination. This would allow a person to tail the fifo to > receive the outputs of the log as it happens but would not take up > precious IO or space from the disk. I personally have found this > valuable when diagnosing immediate unexpected problems. It would > also work on Windows.
I've often wanted this feature, and it's a pleasant surprise (at least to me) that Windows has the underlying capability. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
