Re: How to Log SELECT Statements Having Errors

[Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>]

Lane Van Ingen wrote:
> We are putting a new application on PostgreSQL 8.0.1 (Windows 2003);
> we are coming off of MySQL, and are having a hard time finding all of
> the offending SQL calls.
>
> It would help a great deal if I could log the content of any SQL calls
> that fail. Am only interested in SELECT statements.

I don't know that you can only log SELECT statements that cause errors. 
It should be simple enough to log all statements that cause errors though:

log_min_messages = error
log_min_error_statement = error

> Noticed the following:
> (1) The PostgreSQL manual says that config parm 'log_statement' does 
>     not appear to handle SELECT statements; true?

The "all" setting should.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd