| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
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| To: | Reinhard Max <reinhard(at)m4x(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #7559: syslogger doesn't close stdout and stderr |
| Date: | 2012-09-20 07:31:20 |
| Message-ID: | 505AC648.7050400@vmware.com |
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On 20.09.2012 00:05, Reinhard Max wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 at 12:39, Tom Lane wrote:
>> reinhard(at)m4x(dot)de writes:
>> And what makes /dev/null necessarily the right substitute?
>
> Because it is what virtually all deamons have been doing for the last
> 3..4 decades?
>
>> I don't think we should change this within Postgres. We removed logic
>> associated with daemonization altogether in 9.2
>
> Huh - why that?
I believe Tom is referring to the removal of silent_mode in 9.2, see
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2011-06/msg00796.php and
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-06/msg02156.php. "We
removed logic associated with daemonization" meant that the logic was
removed from postmaster, because the preferred way to do it is by
calling "pg_ctl start". pg_ctl redirects to /dev/null as you'd expect.
- Heikki
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