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From: Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) <[email protected]>
To: 'Chao Li' <[email protected]>
To: Gyan Sreejith <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Cc: shveta malik <[email protected]>
Cc: Shlok Kyal <[email protected]>
Cc: vignesh C <[email protected]>
Cc: Euler Taveira <[email protected]>
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Cc: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Proposal] Adding Log File Capability to pg_createsubscriber
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:50:39 +0000
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Dear Chao,

> I forgot to mention one small suggestion.
> 
> Since the internal log file path includes a timestamped directory, it is a bit
> inconvenient to figure out the full path of the file after the command finishes. I
> think it would be helpful to print the full path of the internal log file at the end,
> something like:
> ```
> 	if (internal_log_file_fp != NULL)
> 	{
> 		if (fclose(internal_log_file_fp) != 0)
> 			report_createsub_fatal("could not
> close %s/%s.log: %m", logdir, INTERNAL_LOG_FILE_NAME);
> 		internal_log_file_fp = NULL;
> 		printf("check the internal log file at \"%s/%s.log\"", logdir,
> INTERNAL_LOG_FILE_NAME);
> 	}
> ```

I don't think it's needed, because pg_upgrade does not print such points.

> Note that I used printf() here, because based on my test, pg_log_info() does not
> work in this place.

It might be becasue you used pg_log_info(). pg_createsubscriber outputs only
warning or error level messages, info-level cannot be printed.

> The other thing I noticed while trying the above code is that
> cleanup_objects_atexit() has this:
> ```
>     if (success)
>         return;
> ```
> 
> That means on the success path, internal_log_file_fp will not be closed. So this
> part would need some adjustment as well. Maybe one way is to jump to the
> log-file cleanup part before returning, for example with a goto, so that
> internal_log_file_fp is always closed.

As the same reason I posted, I think it's not needed.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/OS9PR01MB12149F1AD9C79A2644753A18AF548A%40OS9PR01MB12149.jpnpr...

Best regards,
Hayato Kuroda
FUJITSU LIMITED



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