Tom Lane wrote:
at logger startup or size-based rotation, the rule would be to append.
which then has a problem when you startup the postmaster after 10 hours of downtime ... hmmm.
Doesn't seem like a big problem --- at worst that logfile will get to be double the size it normally would.
... continuing log entries with a time gap...
Note that this scheme effectively disables size-based rotation anyway, unless you use one of the hacks we talked about like using a %H:%M pattern when you intend hourly rotation.
Please no colons in filenames (win32!)
Regards, Andreas
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