Tom Lane writes:
> Seems like a good bare-bones file writer; but how about all those
> frammishes that people ask for like generating date-based filenames,
> switching every so many bytes, etc? Also, it'd be nice not to be
> dependent on a cron job to tickle the switchover.
Linux systems have a standard system log rotation mechanism (see
logrotate(8)), which can rotate logs by size and time and has a number of
other features. I would rather depend on that kind of preferred system
mechanism than rolling out our own. And we already depend on cron for
vacuuming anyway.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
