Re: A single escape required for log_filename - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: A single escape required for log_filename
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Msg-id 603c8f070901131324h5593d8d6va797111091b7e9f2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: A single escape required for log_filename  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> When I set it up, it automatically appended the time so I got:
>> postgresql.log.1231878270
>> That seems a bit, well wrong. If I say I want postgresql.log I should
>> get postgresql.log.
>
> You'd probably reconsider around the time the log file filled your disk.
> You really *don't* want a single fixed filename, you want some kind of
> rotation series.

Clearly so, but it does seem a bit odd if there's really NO way to
insist on a particular fixed filename.

...Robert


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