OK, I am all wet. I now understand why the editing is the time-consuming part of this job. On the plus side it is probably possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N pieces after the "remove insignificant items" step.
With respect to this item: Disable appending of the epoch date/time when '%' escapes are missing in log_filename (Robert Haas) I might suggest explaining it this way: This change makes it easier to use PostgreSQL in conjunction with an external log rotation tool. The following item uses "of" where it should say "if": Throw an error of an escape character is the last character in a LIKE pattern (nothing to escape) (Tom) ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers