Re: rotatelog / logrotate with PostgreSQL

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: rotatelog / logrotate with PostgreSQL
Date: 2002-09-26 00:47:57
Message-ID: 20020926004757.GC5706@svana.org
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:58:22AM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote:
> Well, I've found the syslog facility to be noticeable slower than
> rotatelogs with pgsql doing its own logging. So that's why I do it the
> rotatelogs way. Choice is good.

One thing to be careful of is to put a hyphen before the filename in the
syslog config. This will stop syslog doing a sync() after *every* message,
which quite noticably kills performance. Also make sure it's only logging to
the logs you want and not to multiple files.

Hope this helps,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.

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