Andreas Pflug wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > > I don't assume people using psql will care about the current log files --- > > Hm. Probably because you think these users will have direct file access? > Which in turn means they can edit *.conf directly too and don't need an > interface for that either.
I don't see how listing the log files relates to editing the confuration files. > > it would be something done in C or another application language. Aren't > > the file names already ordered based on their file names, given the > > default pattern, postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log? > > The issue is _filtering_, not ordering. Since the log directory might be > directed to a different location, non-pgsql logfiles might be there too. > You'd probably won't expect to retrieve these files over a pgsql connection. Well, if they mix log files and non-log files in the same directory, we would have to filter based on the log_filename directive in the application, or use LIKE in a query. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq