Re: Add strftime escapes to Log config

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On s?n, 2011-03-20 at 13:32 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > This page:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHERE
> >
> > has the following text:
> >
> > The value is treated as a strftime pattern, so %-escapes can be used to
> > specify time-varying file names.
> >
> > However, nowhere in our docs do we list sample strftime escapes. This
> > means that PG DBAs who are not programmers (and even some who are) end
> > up googling for them all the time. So I would like to add the following
> > text:
> >
> > Useful excape codes which are available on most platforms include: %Y =
> > year, %m = month, %d = day of month, %H = hour, %M = minute, %a = short
> > weekday name, and %b = short month name.
>
> We could also link to
> <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html>, for
> example.

Agreed. I have applied the attached patch to 9.1 and head.

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