Pgadmins, 2 loosly related questions 1. We have need to let developers view the postmaster logs on some of our environments and wish NOT to give them access to the postgres Unix acct if possible. It looks though as if log file perms are determined by the global umask set in postmaster.c and is not changeable without either changing the umask or adding some chmod lines to syslogger.c. Q: Am I missing an easier way to do this? I realize the risks involved here. 2. We have a fairly elaborate and very useful log file parser/analyzer running that gathers and reports on long-running-queries, error messages and other logged data. Splitting the log files into records is a bit tricky however due to multi-line log records. Q: Has anyone else wished for a config parm as "log_line_suffix" or similar that would let us place an arbitrary record seperator string trailing each log file entry? Prefix can be used for this but seems a bit non-intuitive. Comments appreciated. Thx -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Sievers 305 854-3001 (home) WWW ECommerce Consultant 305 321-1144 (mobile http://www.JerrySievers.com/