Re: Log retention query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Brindusa
Subject Re: Log retention query
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Msg-id be48b84f-ffcb-4be7-9489-3686ad74b5bd@gmail.com
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In response to Log retention query  (Paul Brindusa <paulbrindusa88@gmail.com>)
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Good afternoon Peter,

I had the exact same query as Junwang proposed.

Was mega upset that I could not get the cronjobs to work, and from what 
I can tell from @Laurenz's  response above we have the names of the logs 
customised to posgtres-%d-%m-%y. Removing the logs after a week or month 
does not since our retention policy is 6 months.

The cron job was set from root and it did not remove the logs/

On 02/02/2025 08:26, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2025-01-28 13:40:42 +0000, Paul Brindusa wrote:
>> @Junwang apologies, I should have mentioned that  we've tried setting up a
>> crontab and it has not worked.
> Then you have a cron problem and not a postgresql problem.
>
> What that problem is is impossible to say with the information you have
> given us. What was the exact crontab entry, and what did it do? (When
> describing a problem, always use positives, not negatives. "it did not
> work" is particularly useless, since there are a gazillion ways in which
> something could not do what you expected.)
>
>> Have you got something similar working?
> Yes. Cleaning up stuff is probably one of the most frequent uses of
> cron.
>
>          hp
>



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