On 2019-Jul-10, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > Maybe we can use something like a shared memory queue, working in a > > similar way to wal_buffers -- where backends send over the shm queue to > > syslogger, and syslogger writes in order to the actual log file. > > No way that's going to be acceptable for postmaster output.
Well, we can use both mechanisms simultaneously. Postmaster doesn't emit all that much output anyway, so I don't think that's a concern. And actually, we still need the pipes from the backend for the odd cases where third party code writes to stderr, no? -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
