Re: [HACKERS] Logfile

2011-05-22 Thread Nick Raj
sorry, actually becuase of one printf statement(i have added) because of that, these has been occured. My mistake On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Nick Raj wrote: > > I am using contrib/cube code. I am building GIST index on cube data type >

Re: [HACKERS] Logfile

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Nick Raj wrote: > I am using contrib/cube code. I am building GIST index on cube data type > then it leads to a very large size of log file (nearly 220 MB for only 12k > records). > While creating index on geometry field with gist gives 1KB size of log file > for 1

Re: [HACKERS] Logfile created when not needed?

2006-09-24 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > If I configure log_destination='eventlog', and then > > redirect_stderr='on', PostgreSQL will attempt to create a > logfile in > > pg_log anyway. > > So don't do that --- redirect_stderr is only sensible to turn > on if you mean to use logging to stderr. I don't. Normally. But I had it tu

Re: [HACKERS] Logfile created when not needed?

2006-09-24 Thread Tom Lane
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I configure log_destination='eventlog', and then > redirect_stderr='on', PostgreSQL will attempt to create a logfile in > pg_log anyway. So don't do that --- redirect_stderr is only sensible to turn on if you mean to use logging to stderr. The re

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-19 Thread Andreas Pflug
Bruce Momjian wrote: Actually, this is the current state of this issue. Right, please comment on this. To recall, it uses shared memory for a "switch to next logfile name" flag, which can't cause harm in case of shmem corruption, and a postmaster opened filehandle (kept open) to a dummy file

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Actually, this is the current state of this issue. --- Andreas Pflug wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > >Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>>Answering my own question, the distribution of the current logfile

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-16 Thread Andreas Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Answering my own question, the distribution of the current logfile name could be done trough a file handle. would you mind commenting on my suggestion so I can continue on that topic? There is no portable way to redistribu

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Answering my own question, the distribution of the current logfile >> name could be done trough a file handle. > would you mind commenting on my suggestion so I can continue on that topic? There is no portable way to redistribute a file handle.

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-16 Thread Andreas Pflug
Andreas Pflug wrote: Andreas Pflug wrote: We agreed long ago that the postmaster should never depend on the correctness of any shared memory data structure; but this patch would make it do so. I understand that, so what's the suggested way to store data common for all backends? Answering my o

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Pflug
Andreas Pflug wrote: We agreed long ago that the postmaster should never depend on the correctness of any shared memory data structure; but this patch would make it do so. I understand that, so what's the suggested way to store data common for all backends? Answering my own question, the dist

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-13 Thread Andreas Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: I'll repeat what I said in response to your other posting: Hm? I never posted something with shared mem usage before, what do you mean? This uses a shared memory area with no lock, which seems a bad design; AFAICS there should be no lock necessary. We agreed long ago that the

Re: [HACKERS] logfile rotation

2004-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom doesn't like returning the server's logfile using a pgsql function > unless logfile rotation is implemented, so here it is. I'll repeat what I said in response to your other posting: This uses a shared memory area with no lock, which seems a bad des