Re: A single escape required for log_filename

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I have perfectly good log rotation utility that exists on my OS. (yes I
> > am aware of the possibility of losing a log entry when using logrotate).
>
> You might think you do, but it won't work with PG; external rotators
> only work with programs that respond to SIGHUP by re-opening their log
> files.

logrotate will work well enough using copytruncate. It's certainly
unfortunate that PostgreSQL doesn't provide a better mechanism.

Thanks,

Stephen