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<title>Server Configuration</title>

The server's standard output and standard error are redirected

to <literal>/dev/null</>, so any messages sent to them will be lost.

Unless <application>syslog</> logging is selected or

<varname>start_log_collector</> is enabled, using this parameter

<varname>logging_collector</> is enabled, using this parameter

is discouraged because it makes it impossible to see error messages.

This parameter can only be set at server start.

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