Re: log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime() - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
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>>On Friday August 27 2004 12:41, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>BTW, as long as we are taking Apache as the de facto standard --- does
>>>the default of "postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log" actually make sense, or
>>>would something different be closer to the common practice with Apache?
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>>I should say, Apache rotatelogs takes a configurable filename and then
>>appends ".N" where N is the logfile start time epoch.  In one case, its
>>access_log.N, in another its error_log.N.
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>Hmm ... there isn't any way to emulate that with strftime escapes,
>unless I missed the right one.
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According to my Linux man page, the Olsen library has %s for that. I
don't see it in src/timezone/strftime.c, though

cheers

andrew