On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 16:35 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > It seems that there is enough need for this feature, that it has been
> > implemented multiple times -- but most of them will fail in corner
> > cases. Seems an obvious candidate for an in-core function ...
>
> ... which will still fail in corner cases. Not to mention the race
> condition when the logger has just/is about to switch.
Which is still 99% better than the alternative.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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