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

On 8/29/2004 2:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
>> Jan Wieck wrote:
>>>   but allows to setup a
>>> configuration that automatically overwrites files in a rotating manner,
>>> if the DBA so desires.
>
>> ... which can't work because it will overwrite the logfile on server
>> start, and thus will overwrite the very latest logfile when performing
>> multiple restarts.
>
> You are ignoring a critical part of the proposal, which is to overwrite
> only during a time-based rotation; at logger startup or size-based
> rotation, the rule would be to append.

which then has a problem when you startup the postmaster after 10 hours
of downtime ... hmmm.


Jan

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