Only use the pipe chunking protocol if we know the syslogger should

be catching stderr output, and we are not ourselves the
syslogger. Otherwise, go directly to stderr.
Bug noticed by Tom Lane.
Backpatch as far as 8.0.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 69a2b5bbcf7..afe953cd6d4 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.443.4.8 2006/07/16 18:17:35 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.443.4.9 2007/07/19 19:15:25 adunstan Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static bool FatalError = false; /* T if recovering from backend crash */
 
 bool		ClientAuthInProgress = false;		/* T during new-client
 												 * authentication */
+bool redirection_done = false; 
 
 /*
  * State for assigning random salts and cancel keys.
@@ -330,6 +331,7 @@ typedef struct
 	InheritableSocket pgStatPipe0;
 	InheritableSocket pgStatPipe1;
 	pid_t PostmasterPid;
+	bool redirection_done;
 #ifdef WIN32
 	HANDLE PostmasterHandle;
 	HANDLE initial_signal_pipe;
@@ -3718,6 +3720,8 @@ save_backend_variables(BackendParameters *param, Port *port,
 
 	param->PostmasterPid = PostmasterPid;
 
+	param->redirection_done = redirection_done;
+
 #ifdef WIN32
 	param->PostmasterHandle = PostmasterHandle;
 	write_duplicated_handle(&param->initial_signal_pipe,
@@ -3920,6 +3924,8 @@ restore_backend_variables(BackendParameters *param, Port *port)
 
 	PostmasterPid = param->PostmasterPid;
 
+	redirection_done = param->redirection_done;
+
 #ifdef WIN32
 	PostmasterHandle = param->PostmasterHandle;
 	pgwin32_initial_signal_pipe = param->initial_signal_pipe;