From: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 04:43:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: From: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
X-Git-Tag: REL6_3~667
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=213d7b1ae3dc05a2df06f01d2dca0b58fa2747e9;p=postgresql

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 5acc371f01..ba3174508c 100644
--- 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)