Re: Postgres Log rotation not working in 8.0.2 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgres Log rotation not working in 8.0.2
Date
Msg-id 25685.1113857543@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Postgres Log rotation not working in 8.0.2  (Pallav Kalva <pkalva@deg.cc>)
Responses Re: Postgres Log rotation not working in 8.0.2
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Pallav Kalva <pkalva@deg.cc> writes:
>        Postgres log rotation doesnt seem to behave properly, below are
> the settings which I used for log rotation. I want the postgres log to
> be rotated every week , its past over a week now and it still writing to
> the old log.

Well, that rotation setting should rotate every 7 days all right.  Are
you sure the postmaster is really using these settings?  (Check with SHOW.)
In particular, I wonder whether you remembered that changing
redirect_stderr requires an actual postmaster restart, not just SIGHUP.

            regards, tom lane

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