On 2017-12-12 14:16:59 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > I agree that it's more reliable - I hope there's no meaningful safety > > difference. I think you overestimate users a bit however - far from > > most of them are going to be able to extract a very long log entry from > > a busy log file. There's no generally available easy way to copy a few > > pages of text from a logfile that's a few gigabytes large... > > Well, a lot of users will send us the whole logfile rather than just > the relevant bits, but that doesn't bother me.
That doesn't really work on some busy servers, and also often in cases where the log potentially contains sensitive (e.g. HIPPA) data. I think a function returning the dump would be great, a function "just" dumping to the server log still pretty good. Greetings, Andres Freund
