Re: [GENERAL] How to erase transaction logs on PostgreSQL
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Frank Church voi...@gmail.com wrote: How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? pg_resetxlog I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain security details? I suggest you delete them. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training Services -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] How to erase transaction logs on PostgreSQL
On 8 March 2012 16:23, Guillaume Lelarge guilla...@lelarge.info wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:18 +, Frank Church wrote: How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? You don't. PostgreSQL does it for you. I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain security details? The only security detail AFAIK would be passwords (if you set a password and log queries, the password will be in the logs... the only way to prevent that is to send it crypted). What are the commands to accomplish that, ie getting PostgreSQL to erase the logs? -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com
Re: [GENERAL] How to erase transaction logs on PostgreSQL
On 03/08/12 4:09 PM, Frank Church wrote: What are the commands to accomplish that, ie getting PostgreSQL to erase the logs? there's two completely different sorts of logs here. 'transaction logs' in postgres are the write-ahead logs, these are binary files used internally by postgres, in the pg_xlog directory, as Simon said, you can use pg_resetxlog() to 'reset' the state of this. the other sort of logs are the human readable log files, generated for debugging and auditing purposes, these contain just what you configure them to contain, and are often stored in pg_log, or in the system logs (/var/log/...) depending on your configuration. you'd have to delete these yourself outside of postgres. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
[GENERAL] How to erase transaction logs on PostgreSQL
How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain security details? /voipfc
Re: [GENERAL] How to erase transaction logs on PostgreSQL
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:18 +, Frank Church wrote: How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? You don't. PostgreSQL does it for you. I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain security details? The only security detail AFAIK would be passwords (if you set a password and log queries, the password will be in the logs... the only way to prevent that is to send it crypted). -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] How to erase transaction logs on PostgreSQL
one ultra dummy way would be to dump, back up, destroy the data dirs, and any human /var/log files and then re-initdb and restore. On Πεμ 08 Μαρ 2012 12:18:17 Frank Church wrote: How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain security details? /voipfc -- Achilleas Mantzios IT DEPT -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] How to erase transaction logs on PostgreSQL
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 00:09 +, Frank Church wrote: On 8 March 2012 16:23, Guillaume Lelarge guilla...@lelarge.info wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:18 +, Frank Church wrote: How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? You don't. PostgreSQL does it for you. I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain security details? The only security detail AFAIK would be passwords (if you set a password and log queries, the password will be in the logs... the only way to prevent that is to send it crypted). What are the commands to accomplish that, ie getting PostgreSQL to erase the logs? PostgreSQL doesn't erase logs. You need to do it yourself, either manually or with a script (executed by cron for example). -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
