Re: postmaster and logrotate - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: postmaster and logrotate
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Msg-id 200312221756.hBMHuFf29038@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to postmaster and logrotate  (Dima Tkach <dmitry@openratings.com>)
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Dima Tkach wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
>
> I was wonderring if there is a way to make logrotate work with postgres
> logs?
> More precisely, the question is - is there any way to tell a running
> postmaster process to reopen its log file?
> I tried kill -HUP ... but that doesn't seem to do anything...
>
> Is there just no way to do what I want?

Docs say pipe into logrotate:

    http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/logfile-maintenance.html

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