Tom Lane wrote:

Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Answering my own question, the distribution of the current logfile name could be done trough a file handle.





would you mind commenting on my suggestion so I can continue on that topic?



There is no portable way to redistribute a file handle.



Seems I didn't make clear enough what I mean.

I'd fopen a file handle in the postmaster, and all subsequent processes will inherit that handle just as they do for stderr; no redistribution required.
The log filename is written to that file when pg_logfile_rotate is called:
fseek(fh, 0, SEEK_SET);
fprintf(fh, "%s", newlogfilname);
fflush();


and all subprocesses may retrieve the filename when required by

char buf[MAXPGPATH];
fseek(fh, 0, SEEK_SET);
fread(buf, 1, MAXPGPATH, fh);
buf[MAXPGPATH-1]=0; // prevent buffer overflow
logfile=fopen(buf, "a+");

Regards,
Andreas



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