Re: rotatelogs integration in pg_ctl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: rotatelogs integration in pg_ctl
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Msg-id 20040413150257.GA17026@wolff.to
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In response to Re: rotatelogs integration in pg_ctl  ("Thomas Swan" <tswan@idigx.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:33:42 -0500, Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com> 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 system
> or third party like logrotate and removes any duplicate effort between
> projects.

Wouldn't that break logs piped to a program?


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