Re: [PATCHES] log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime()

[Jan Wieck]

On 8/29/2004 2:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan Wieck wrote:
  but allows to setup a
configuration that automatically overwrites files in a rotating manner, 
if the DBA so desires.

... which can't work because it will overwrite the logfile on server 
start, and thus will overwrite the very latest logfile when performing 
multiple restarts.
You are ignoring a critical part of the proposal, which is to overwrite
only during a time-based rotation; at logger startup or size-based
rotation, the rule would be to append.


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which then has a problem when you startup the postmaster after 10 hours 
of downtime ... hmmm.

Jan
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