Fix syslogger's rotation disable/re-enable logic.
If it fails to open a new log file, the syslogger assumes there's something
wrong with its parameters (such as log_directory), and stops attempting
automatic time-based or size-based log file rotations. Sending it SIGHUP
is supposed to start that up again. However, the original coding for that
was really bogus, involving clobbering a couple of GUC variables and hoping
that SIGHUP processing would restore them. Get rid of that technique in
favor of maintaining a separate flag showing we've turned rotation off.
Per report from Mark Kirkwood.
Also, the syslogger will automatically attempt to create the log_directory
directory if it doesn't exist, but that was only happening at startup.
For consistency and ease of use, it should do the same whenever the value
of log_directory is changed by SIGHUP.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Branch
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REL8_3_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f8d7f9adfd6d8d65cd9c6a535b192e61971f4ed4
Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
