diff --git a/contrib/Makefile b/contrib/Makefile
index 1a25bfd17e..321c1126f8 100644
--- a/contrib/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/Makefile,v 1.50 2004/08/28 21:36:24 tgl Exp $
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/Makefile,v 1.51 2004/09/16 21:20:19 tgl Exp $
 
 subdir = contrib
 top_builddir = ..
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ WANTED_DIRS = \
 		oid2name	\
 		pg_autovacuum	\
 		pg_dumplo	\
-		pg_logger	\
 		pg_trgm		\
 		pgbench		\
 		pgcrypto	\
diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README
index 7cacdc2bde..1cf43b6f66 100644
--- a/contrib/README
+++ b/contrib/README
@@ -140,10 +140,6 @@ pg_dumplo -
 	Dump large objects
 	by Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
 
-pg_logger -
-	Stdin-to-syslog gateway for PostgreSQL
-	by Nathan Myers <ncm@nospam.cantrip.org>
-
 pg_trgm -
 	Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
 	matching.
diff --git a/contrib/pg_logger/Makefile b/contrib/pg_logger/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index c3d99bf746..0000000000
--- a/contrib/pg_logger/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pg_logger/Makefile,v 1.4 2004/08/20 20:13:06 momjian Exp $
-
-PROGRAM = pg_logger
-OBJS	= pg_logger.o
-
-DOCS = README.pg_logger
-
-ifdef USE_PGXS
-PGXS = $(shell pg_config --pgxs)
-include $(PGXS)
-else
-subdir = contrib/pg_logger
-top_builddir = ../..
-include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
-include $(top_srcdir)/contrib/contrib-global.mk
-endif
diff --git a/contrib/pg_logger/README.pg_logger b/contrib/pg_logger/README.pg_logger
deleted file mode 100644
index aaad73f508..0000000000
--- a/contrib/pg_logger/README.pg_logger
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Stdin-to-syslog gateway for PostgreSQL
diff --git a/contrib/pg_logger/pg_logger.c b/contrib/pg_logger/pg_logger.c
deleted file mode 100644
index cb28bf5e7a..0000000000
--- a/contrib/pg_logger/pg_logger.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-/* pg_logger: stdin-to-syslog gateway for postgresql.
- *
- * Copyright 2001 by Nathan Myers <ncm@nospam.cantrip.org>
- * This software is distributed free of charge with no warranty of any kind.
- * You have permission to make copies for any purpose, provided that (1)
- * this copyright notice is retained unchanged, and (2) you agree to
- * absolve the author of all responsibility for all consequences arising
- * from any use.
- */
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <stddef.h>
-#include <syslog.h>
-#include <string.h>
-
-struct
-{
-	const char *tag;
-	int			size;
-	int			priority;
-}	tags[] =
-
-{
-	{
-		"", 0, LOG_NOTICE
-	},
-	{
-		"emerg:", sizeof("emerg"), LOG_EMERG
-	},
-	{
-		"alert:", sizeof("alert"), LOG_ALERT
-	},
-	{
-		"crit:", sizeof("crit"), LOG_CRIT
-	},
-	{
-		"err:", sizeof("err"), LOG_ERR
-	},
-	{
-		"error:", sizeof("error"), LOG_ERR
-	},
-	{
-		"warning:", sizeof("warning"), LOG_WARNING
-	},
-	{
-		"notice:", sizeof("notice"), LOG_NOTICE
-	},
-	{
-		"info:", sizeof("info"), LOG_INFO
-	},
-	{
-		"debug:", sizeof("debug"), LOG_DEBUG
-	}
-};
-
-int
-main()
-{
-	char		buf[301];
-	int			c;
-	char	   *pos = buf;
-	const char *colon = 0;
-
-#ifndef DEBUG
-	openlog("postgresql", LOG_CONS, LOG_LOCAL1);
-#endif
-	while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
-	{
-		if (c == '\r')
-			continue;
-		if (c == '\n')
-		{
-			int			level = sizeof(tags) / sizeof(*tags);
-			char	   *bol;
-
-			if (colon == 0 || (size_t) (colon - buf) > sizeof("warning"))
-				level = 1;
-			*pos = 0;
-			while (--level)
-			{
-				if (pos - buf >= tags[level].size
-				 && strncmp(buf, tags[level].tag, tags[level].size) == 0)
-					break;
-			}
-			bol = buf + tags[level].size;
-			if (bol > buf && *bol == ' ')
-				++bol;
-			if (pos - bol > 0)
-			{
-#ifndef DEBUG
-				syslog(tags[level].priority, "%s", bol);
-#else
-				printf("%d/%s\n", tags[level].priority, bol);
-#endif
-			}
-			pos = buf;
-			colon = (char const *) 0;
-			continue;
-		}
-		if (c == ':' && !colon)
-			colon = pos;
-		if ((size_t) (pos - buf) < sizeof(buf) - 1)
-			*pos++ = c;
-	}
-	return 0;
-}