On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:18 +0000, Frank Church wrote: > How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? >
You don't. PostgreSQL does it for you.
> I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction > logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? > > I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. > > Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain > security details? >
The only security detail AFAIK would be passwords (if you set a password and log queries, the password will be in the logs... the only way to prevent that is to send it crypted).
What are the commands to accomplish that, ie getting PostgreSQL to erase the logs?
