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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index 370aa09ee7c..697cf401374 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -3941,8 +3941,14 @@ local0.* /var/log/postgresql that are replaced with status information as outlined below. Unrecognized escapes are ignored. Other characters are copied straight to the log line. Some escapes are - only recognized by session processes, and are ignored by - background processes such as the main server process. + only recognized by session processes, and will be treated as empty by + background processes such as the main server process. Status + information may be aligned either left or right by specifying a + numeric literal after the % and before the option. A negative + value will cause the status information to be padded on the + right with spaces to give it a minimum width, whereas a positive + value will pad on the left. Padding can be useful to aid human + readability in log files. This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</> file or on the server command line. The default is an empty string. |