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From Van Hoa Phan
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In response to current log file removal  (Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com>)
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Would this do?

cat /dev/null > my_log_file.log

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:41 AM Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi

How can I safely remove the log file that is being used  currently and zip it without interfering with the postgres server?

We are running out of space on the server and the logs are eating a lot of space, we need to zip them without first stopping the server.

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