On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > (x-posting to -hackers, more relevant audience) > > On 2016-01-29 22:19:45 -0800, Evan Rempel wrote: >> Now that there is a setting to give a cluster a "name", it would be nice to >> have an escape sequence in the log_line_prefix setting that could reference >> the cluster_name. > > I've argued[1][2] for this when cluster_name was introduced, but back > then I seemed to have been the only one arguing for it. Josh later > jumped that train. > > Given that we now had a number of people wishing for this, can we maybe > reconsider? +1 I missed the part of this conversation that took place on -admin. I agree with Evan Rempel's post over there[1] that it's useful for syslog users, and that it's not ideal to have to hijack syslog_ident or explicitly copy the name into log_line_prefix. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56C64017.7050303%40uvic.ca -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin