Re: Log rotation? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Log rotation?
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Msg-id 29597.999749054@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Log rotation?  (Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>)
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Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> And no, "use syslog" doesn't count.
>> 
>> Why not?

> The standard implementations of syslog lose log entries under heavy
> load,

Okay, that's a sufficient answer for that point.

> (My personal preference these days is an approach like DJB's
> daemontools, which separates the handling of log entries from the
> program doing the logging.)

That still leads back to my first question, which is whether we can't
rely on someone else's logrotation code.
        regards, tom lane


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