 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] 
> Sent: 07 June 2004 15:32
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Andreas Pflug; PostgreSQL Development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] serverlog function (log_destination file) 
> 
>
> If I were trying to solve Andreas' problem, I'd pipe stderr 
> to some program that stores recent log output in a file that 
> I know the location of and can read from the hypothetical 
> log-grabber function.  Actually I don't see that there's any 
> need to involve Postgres itself in this issue at all --- 
> seems like the only agreement needed is between the GUI and 
> the postmaster launching script about where the log file is.

Thanks Tom. I wonder if we (the pgAdmin team) finally need to bite the
proverbial bullet and write a helper daemon that can allow access to
logs as well as config files and pg_ctl etc. as an optional extra
component.

Regards, Dave.

Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:46:43 +0100
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: serverlog function (log_destination file) 
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> Thanks Tom. I wonder if we (the pgAdmin team) finally need to bite the
> proverbial bullet and write a helper daemon that can allow access to
> logs as well as config files and pg_ctl etc. as an optional extra
> component.

Red Hat's RHDB group already did a fair amount of work on such a tool:
see Control Center available from http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/

IIRC it's all in Java and thus at least theoretically portable to
Windows.

At the moment Red Hat is devoting no resources to it (and so I think
it's stuck in the 7.3 time frame) but I'd be very happy to see someone
else pick it up and work on it.

			regards, tom lane

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:55:23 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: serverlog function (log_destination file) 