Re: [GENERAL] Tracing in Postgres

2011-07-25 Thread Craig Ringer
Please reply to the list, not just to me. On 25/07/11 12:33, Harshitha S wrote: I want to retain all the error messages, error report that is used by Postgres. I don't intend to log any information extra other than what is provided by Postgres. But I just want to replace the implementation

Re: [GENERAL] Tracing in Postgres

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Lane
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au writes: On 25/07/11 12:33, Harshitha S wrote: But I just want to replace the implementation of the logging/tracing in Postgres, so that the existing messages can be redirected to a file, a USB etc., OK. If you are running on Unix/Linux you can just

Re: [GENERAL] Tracing in Postgres

2011-07-25 Thread Craig Ringer
On 25/07/2011 9:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Or just redirect postmaster's stderr to the target file, and don't even bother with syslog ... True. I was working on the assumption that the OP wanted to change the output destination at runtime, but if that is not the case then a simple redirect is a

[GENERAL] Tracing in Postgres

2011-07-22 Thread Harshitha S
Hi, I am trying to integrate a tracing framework in the Postgres code. I need to know if elog.c under backend/utils/error is the place where the changes can be made. The tracing framework that I want to integrate has some additional capability. I want to replace the tracing and logging

Re: [GENERAL] Tracing in Postgres

2011-07-22 Thread Craig Ringer
On 22/07/2011 4:43 PM, Harshitha S wrote: Hi, I am trying to integrate a tracing framework in the Postgres code. I need to know if elog.c under backend/utils/error is the place where the changes can be made. It depends: what exactly are the kinds of events you want to trace? If you're looking