On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This week, we heard about a user willing to use a custom timestamp > format across a set of services to improve the debugability of the > whole set, Postgres being one of them. Unfortunately datestyle does > not take into account the logs. Would it be worth adding a new GUC > able to control the timestamp format in the logs? > > We could still redirect the logs with syslog and have a custom > timestamp format there, but in the case of this particular user syslog > was a no-go. Looking at the code, timestamp format is now hardcoded in > setup_formatted_log_time and setup_formatted_start_time when calling > pg_strftime @ elog.c, so it doesn't seem to be much complicated to do. > > Opinions? This thread is here for that. >
A separate GUC seems kind of weird. Wouldn't it be better with something like %(format)t or such in the log_line_prefix itself in that case? That could also be expanded to other parameters, should we need them? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
