On Friday August 27 2004 12:08, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Attached is a patch which replaces the 'log_filename_prefix' > > configuration directive with a similar 'log_filename' directive. > > + changes the default log filename to exclude the PID; > > This would be better stated as "makes it impossible to use the PID > in the file name". While I'm prepared to grant that it may not be > necessary to do so in many scenarios, I'm not very happy with > arbitrarily removing the ability ... especially without giving any > justification.
Yes, should have said more on that item. First, I didn't see how to easily make it configurable in combination with strftime() without doing more work, and it didn't appear to be worth the effort. By its addition, hard-coding the PID into the filename deviates from what I would argue is the de facto standard of Apache's rotatelogs and forces a naming convention where none existed before. That creates work for us as we have a considerable infrastructure setup to deal with logs; I suspect that may be the case with others. I looked, but did not find, justification for why it was introduced; I would assume it was added to allow for multiple postmasters sharing the same log directory. I had difficulty fathoming the usefulness of this being hard-coded, as it seems one could compensate easily through the configurable 'log_filename' if one chose to share a log directory among postmasters. Not by including the PID, but by some other postmaster-unique naming approach. Given its a new 'feature', I'm hoping it can be altered to return the freedom of filenaming to the administrator. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
