diff --git a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
index b2fab359b8..93f0ba0e39 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c,v 1.224 2010/05/08 16:39:51 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c,v 1.225 2010/07/18 23:43:32 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -2348,15 +2348,13 @@ send_message_to_server_log(ErrorData *edata)
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			const char *msg = _("Not safe to send CSV data\n");
-
-			write_console(msg, strlen(msg));
+			/*
+			 * syslogger not up (yet), so just dump the message to stderr,
+			 * unless we already did so above.
+			 */
 			if (!(Log_destination & LOG_DESTINATION_STDERR) &&
 				whereToSendOutput != DestDebug)
-			{
-				/* write message to stderr unless we just sent it above */
 				write_console(buf.data, buf.len);
-			}
 			pfree(buf.data);
 		}
 	}