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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-08-26 14:21:55 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2018-08-26 14:21:55 -0400
commit93ca07fd8abf600bf56a56ed8b7f882ab58321f3 (patch)
tree9e33dc069edce867d16522f9700a3880a7ea6928 /src/backend/utils/adt
parentc2ea62f58575045bd85156581f55b57067f33fd8 (diff)
Make syslogger more robust against failures in opening CSV log files.
The previous coding figured it'd be good enough to postpone opening the first CSV log file until we got a message we needed to write there. This is unsafe, though, because if the open fails we end up in infinite recursion trying to report the failure. Instead make the CSV log file management code look as nearly as possible like the longstanding logic for the stderr log file. In particular, open it immediately at postmaster startup (if enabled), or when we get a SIGHUP in which we find that log_destination has been changed to enable CSV logging. It seems OK to fail if a postmaster-start-time open attempt fails, as we've long done for the stderr log file. But we can't die if we fail to open a CSV log file during SIGHUP, so we're still left with a problem. In that case, write any output meant for the CSV log file to the stderr log file. (This will also cover race-condition cases in which backends send CSV log data before or after we have the CSV log file open.) This patch also fixes an ancient oversight that, if CSV logging was turned off during a SIGHUP, we never actually closed the last CSV log file. In passing, remember to reset whereToSendOutput = DestNone during syslogger start, since (unlike all other postmaster children) it's forked before the postmaster has done that. This made for a platform-dependent difference in error reporting behavior between the syslogger and other children: except on Windows, it'd report problems to the original postmaster stderr as well as the normal error log file(s). It's barely possible that that was intentional at some point; but it doesn't seem likely to be desirable in production, and the platform dependency definitely isn't desirable. Per report from Alexander Kukushkin. It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B==iLUD_gqC-dAENS0V+kVrCeGiKujtKqSQ7++S-caaChw@mail.gmail.com
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