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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > One issue is that the log files might be in /var/log with other server
> > logs.
>
> Probably not; it seems unlikely that the postgres user would have write
> permission on /var/log, as it would have to have to do log rotation in
> such a case.  I'd expect anyone putting PG logs under /var/log to create
> a postgres-owned subdirectory for 'em.

Oh, yea, right.

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