Message-ID: <42af2f4ed8afe739f2e8f8add80100b2ba2d7808.camel@cybertec.at>
Subject: Re: log_line_prefix and JSON log format
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: michael@schoenitzer.de, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:10:50 +0200
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On Fri, 2026-09-25 at 09:32 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/index.html
>=20
> I noticed, that it not documented anywhere what log_line_prefix will do, =
if
> log_destination =3D 'jsonlog' (Or CSV). From my tests it seems it is igno=
red
> and does nothing. But we weren't sure and would be helpful to have this
> documented.

True; here is a patch.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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