Re: Postgres Logging doesnt work - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Pallav Kalva
Subject Re: Postgres Logging doesnt work
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Msg-id 45214ECE.5030303@livedatagroup.com
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In response to Re: Postgres Logging doesnt work  ("Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir@gmail.com>)
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Thanks! Shoaib,  that worked real good. Not sure why it stopped in the
first place.

Shoaib Mir wrote:
> I guess that might work:
>
> 1. Set the following in postgresql.conf file --> log_rotation_age = 1
> 2. rename the already present log file from dbserver logs folder
> 3. Now do --> pg_ctl reload (so that log_rotation_age change you did
> comes in affect)
> 4. Check the log folder after a while (after 1 minutes) and it will be
> having a new log file and doing all the logging there
> 5. After it starts the logging you can revert the change done to
> rotation_age and do a reload again.
>
> Thanks,
> ---
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com>)
>
>
>
> On 10/2/06, *Pallav Kalva * <pkalva@livedatagroup.com
> <mailto:pkalva@livedatagroup.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Andrew,
>
>          Thanks! for the reply, it is a small file. the file size on it is
>     735K that's pretty small. Not sure why it stopped writing to the log
>     file, is there any way to start logging without starting postgres ?
>
>     Pallav.
>
>     Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>     > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:04:11AM -0400, Pallav Kalva wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hi ,
>     >>
>     >>     My production database stopped writting to the postgres log
>     files
>     >> all of a sudden, does anybody know why ?
>     >>
>     >
>     > How big is the file?
>     >
>     >
>     >>  log_rotation_age               | 10080
>     >>  log_rotation_size              | 0
>     >>
>     >
>     > You've set this up to rotate once every 10,080 minutes, no matter
>     > what.  If you've run into a file size limit, then you'll be out of
>     > luck until the next file is opened, which should be on the same day
>     > of the week the postmaster was last started.  Just a guess.
>     >
>     > A
>     >
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