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Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c b/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c index e3b61025162..8b00aa525b2 100644 --- a/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c +++ b/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c @@ -634,6 +634,20 @@ SysLogger_Start(void) /* now we redirect stderr, if not done already */ if (!redirection_done) { +#ifdef WIN32 + int fd; +#endif + + /* + * Leave a breadcrumb trail when redirecting, in case the user + * forgets that redirection is active and looks only at the + * original stderr target file. + */ + ereport(LOG, + (errmsg("redirecting log output to logging collector process"), + errhint("Future log output will appear in directory \"%s\".", + Log_directory))); + #ifndef WIN32 fflush(stdout); if (dup2(syslogPipe[1], fileno(stdout)) < 0) @@ -649,8 +663,6 @@ SysLogger_Start(void) close(syslogPipe[1]); syslogPipe[1] = -1; #else - int fd; - /* * open the pipe in binary mode and make sure stderr is binary * after it's been dup'ed into, to avoid disturbing the pipe |