Re: Log messages of the server?

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

> Hi,
> 
> just a quick question: I've installed test-drives of the 
> PostgreSQL 8.0 beta installers (all versions, up to and 
> including beta4), on win2k, XP Pro and XP home, they all 
> worked fine starting the postmaster as service under user 
> postgres. I just realized, though, that I had a problem 
> upgrading one machine from beta2 to beta3, though. The 
> service didn't start, because an initdb was required. But I 
> didn't see any eventlog messages (that's where a windows user 
> would look first, naturally). After more careful scrutiny, I 
> did not find
> *ANY* server log messages. Where does the installer set 
> logging to? Is logging to eventlog even implemented? How to 
> configure it?

There has been a debate about where to log, and the end result was not
to default to eventlog. You can enable eventlogging by editing
postgresql.conf, look for the parameter "log_destination".
Log files by default go into the pg_log subdirectory of the data
directory.

//Magnus