quote who=Andrew Hammond
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
rotatelogs for logging.
Why bother? You just pipe pg_ctl's output to rotatelogs and you're done.
It's not difficult to do, once you know
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:33:42 -0500,
Thomas Swan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a reason the postmasters cannot just close/reopen-recreate the
log file when a SIGHUP or other signal is issued like apache? This would
allow for almost any scheme for log rotation to be handled by the
Thomas Swan wrote:
Is there a reason the postmasters cannot just close/reopen-recreate
the log file when a SIGHUP or other signal is issued like apache?
Yes, because there is no log file. The postmaster writes to stdout or
stderr.
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quote who=Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Swan wrote:
Is there a reason the postmasters cannot just close/reopen-recreate
the log file when a SIGHUP or other signal is issued like apache?
Yes, because there is no log file. The postmaster writes to stdout or
stderr.
Ok, my misunderstanding.
Thomas Swan wrote:
Would there be any interest in modifying postmaster to support native
file logging in addition to stderr and stdout output? Are there any
terrible drawbacks that you could foresee?
We have about 8 years of mailing list archives describing them.
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
rotatelogs for logging.
Why bother? You just pipe pg_ctl's output to rotatelogs and you're
done.
It's not difficult to do, once you know how and once you know that
I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
rotatelogs for logging. Is there any interested in the community for
such a thing? I have not yet added the appropriate stuff to autoconf to
completely integrate this.
I would appreciate any suggestions for improvement.
Andrew Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've attached a patch for pg_ctl which integrates the Apache project's
rotatelogs for logging.
Why bother? You just pipe pg_ctl's output to rotatelogs and you're
done.
regards, tom lane
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