Tom Lane wrote:
> That struck me as not only useless but the deliberately hard way to do
> it. To use that in the real world, you'd have to set up a cron job to
> trigger the rotation,
Still on my radar...
which means a lot of infrastructure and privilege;
> whereas ISTM the point of this feature was to avoid both.
... I was thinking about putting this into the pg_autovacuum process.
The log
> capture process should just do its own rotation on a pre-configured
> time-interval basis, and/or maximum-file-size basis.
Yup.
I see zero value
> added in having it respond to external signals.
I see >0 value. I like to truncate my logfile before doing some
complicated stuff, to have a handy file for debugging purposes.
Regards,
Andreas
