Re: Add support for logging the current role

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Frost<sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>  wrote:
>>>>> I believe the suggestion that Robert and I were talking about above was
>>>>> to just unilatterally change the CSV log file output format to include
>>>>> current_role.  No header lines, no variable output format, etc.
>
>> OK.  If no one objects further, Stephen and I will make that happen.
>> Otherwise: he's dead, Jim.
>
> I can't remember at the moment: have we changed the CSV format in any
> releases since it was first created?  And if so, did anyone complain?
>
> If there's precedent showing this isn't going to be a problem for CSV
> users, I won't object.  Otherwise I think that we should try to have
> just one flag day for them, not two.

CSV log files were introduced in 8.3.0 by commit
fd801f4faa8e0f00bc314b16549e3d8e8aa1b653. There are several follow-on
commits making adjustments, but they all appear to be 8.3-vintage:

230e8962f3a47cae4729ad7c017410d28caf1370
3bf66d6f1c3a8d266c3e6ed939e763a001179faf
77c166ba6cf6fe8f7e9737b7fe1793d886dd5cf8

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