Re: log file rotate - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: log file rotate
Date
Msg-id 4115FD25.6000201@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: log file rotate  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Give me a use case that requires that, and is sufficiently interesting
> to justify even a marginal decrease in the reliability of the log
> process.
> 
> Frankly, I do not believe that database users should have anything to do
> with the log rotation process.

The (super)user will sometimes purge old files, so he *does* have to do 
something with the rotation process' output. It's up to him what he 
regards as old, maybe everything before 'now'.

YAUC (yet another use case): rotating every day at 3 am.

Regards,
Andreas



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