Re: logfile subprocess and Fancy File Functions - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: logfile subprocess and Fancy File Functions
Date
Msg-id 200407201842.37898.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: logfile subprocess and Fancy File Functions  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: logfile subprocess and Fancy File Functions
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug wrote:
> > > How should the prefix be named? pgsql_ ?
> >
> > Make the file names configurable.
>
> He has code to interpret the file names as timestamps that can be
> used in queries.  If we allowed full user control over the file name,
> he couldn't do that.

I can't see this working.  As you know, there are constantly people who
want to install and configure PostgreSQL in the weirdest ways.  If we
tell everybody, you log files must be named like this, it will start
all over again.

Maybe it would be better if the time stamps of the files are used as
time stamps in queries.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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