On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tor, 2012-03-08 at 10:06 -0500, A.M. wrote: >>> The only reason I truncate them on start is that I am appending to >> them >>> in many places in the code, and it was easier to just truncate them >> on >>> start rather than to remember where I first write to them. >>> > >> mktemps? > > I don't want to see some tool unconditionally writing files (log or > otherwise) with unpredictable names. That would make it impossible to > clean up in a wrapper script.
The point of writing temp files to the /tmp/ directory is that they don't need to be cleaned up. You really prefer having log files written to your current working directory? I don't know of any utility that pollutes the cwd like that- it seems like an easy way to forget where one left the log files. Cheers, M -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
