Re: Syslog and pg_options (for RPMs)

> However, it's folly to imagine that we will ever get rid of stderr
> output entirely. One glaring example is that on most platforms,
> if you have a failure while trying to load a dynamic-link library,
> the dynamic linker will emit useful messages (like the names of
> unresolved symbols) on stderr. It will never be acceptable to throw
> that info away, nor do we have a way to capture it and send it
> elsewhere than stderr.
>
> Given these considerations, I'm not all that excited about mounting a
> holy war on stdout/stderr messages in the backend code. It'd be more
> profitable to leave the code as-is and figure out a way to cause
> stdout/stderr output to be logged in a more admin-friendly manner.
> I like the idea of piping the output to a log-rotation program.

I am not out to eliminate it. I just want to be sure that we are using
elog()/fprintf() in the proper places. If someone says we are, the item
is closed.

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