From: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>

The attached patch makes elog() write the message to stderr if there is
no frontend to talk to.

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
index 5acc371f01c2a25a605bd4b347321cab933327c9..ba3174508c2d8a73f033adb6e53ba974f4769b36 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c,v 1.19 1997/09/08 02:31:27 momjian Exp $
+ *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c,v 1.20 1997/11/09 04:43:35 scrappy Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ elog(int lev, const char *fmt,...)
                pq_putstr(line);
                pq_flush();
        }
+       if (Pfout == NULL) {
+       /* There is no socket.  One explanation for this is we are running
+          as the Postmaster.  So we'll write the message to stderr.
+        */
+               fputs(line, stderr);
+       }
 #endif                                                 /* !PG_STANDALONE */
 
        if (lev == WARN)