Re: [HACKERS] Syslog Facility Patch

[Peter Eisentraut]

Larry Rosenman writes:

> * Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001113 17:43]:
> > Larry Rosenman writes:
> > 
> > > Ok, You guys are probably tired of me, BUT, here is another one, that
> > > adds the facility to set the program name used in syslog. 
> > > (this includes the other ones). 
> > 
> > Why would one want to do that?  ISTM that that would just be a means to
> > play games with the sysadmin.
> test vs. production postgresDB's, virtual users (ala uunet), multiple
> different pg's listening on different ports. 

Okay, but you can't make these options PGC_SIGHUP unless you make sure to
close and re-open the syslog channel whenever these options
change.  Probably ought to be PGC_POSTMASTER.

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