Re: Ready for Beta ... ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: Ready for Beta ... ?
Date
Msg-id 20040808163553.Y52647@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: Ready for Beta ... ?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Ready for Beta ... ?  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
Re: Ready for Beta ... ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, there's the logfile rotation issue...
>>>
>>>
>>> With rotatelogs not supporting it, it is hard to argue we should,
>>> especially this close to beta.  We can revisit it in 8.1.
>>
>> How about 8.0Beta2? I consider this as a bug, after all postings for
>> logfiles did support it.
>
> Adding a function will require a system catalog change.  If we are
> already doing one we might be able to get it in, but I doubt it greatly.
>
> We already do more than rotatelogs by specifying a size.  That seems
> enough to me for now.
>
> Basically I think you will need a vote to expand this in 8.1.

Hate to ask, but can someone summarize what it is that is being 
"discussed" here?  Andreas' post about 'size triggering' is what drew my 
eye, but I think I missed the central point :(

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