And what about that Debugfile?

There is a "postgres" option -o which can redirect the server output to a
file.  The postmaster output will still go to stderr.  Does anyone recall
how this was supposed to be useful?

Interesting code (from elog):
   /* NOTE: debug file is typically pointed at stderr */   write(Debugfile, msg_buf, len);
   ...
   /*    * fflush here is just to improve the odds that we get to see    * the error message, in case things are so
hosedthat    * proc_exit crashes. [...]    */   fflush(stdout);   fflush(stderr);
 

Fat chance.  ;-)

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