| From: | "Ed L(dot)" <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime() |
| Date: | 2004-09-20 22:49:38 |
| Message-ID: | 200409201649.38715.pgsql@bluepolka.net |
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On Monday September 20 2004 4:43, Ed L. wrote:
>
> This patch rotates logs on local time boundaries instead of UTC
> boundaries, e.g., midnight local for daily rotation instead of midnight
> UTC. It does so by parsing the "%z" result from strftime().
>
> ... I am arguing for
> inclusion of this patch because 1) the utility of local time boundary
> rotations exceeds the risk for us, and because 2) the risk can be
> mitigated by a comment in the documentation and maybe postgresql.conf,
> and because 3) I think the issue already exists and this doesn't make it
> worse.
And I'd add that working with UTC-oriented rotations in 8.0.0 beta code has
already proved annoying and needlessly confusing, thus the patch. Daily
log rotations occur at 18:00 here.
Ed
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