Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 16:33, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I don't think there'd be much logical difficulty in having an output >> field (ie, CSV column or log_line_prefix escape) that represents a >> classification of the PID, say as "postmaster, backend, AV worker, >> AV launcher, bgwriter, ...". It would only require changing things >> in one place, whereas your original proposal seemed mighty open-ended.
> Good point. That *would* probably take care of much of the need. The > downside is aggressive filtering that way would get rid of important > messages coming out of a single backend, like out of disk space. > Meaning it would still not be possible to filter on the difference > between ERROR: syntax error in query and ERROR: out of disk space? But > it'd be an improvement still. Hmm, well, what about filtering on the SQLSTATE? You could do that today. A category-level filter would probably serve pretty well. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers