Re: How to maintain the csv log files in pg_log directory only for past 30 days

On 2018-09-29 07:12:32 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 9/28/18 7:05 PM, Raghavendra Rao J S V wrote:
> > Hope you all are recommending below settings to maintain only max 30
> > days logs in *pg_log* directory. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Well it would actually be 31 days as:
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strftime.html
>
> %d
> Replaced by the day of the month as a decimal number [01,31]. [ tm_mday]

Additionally, the log file for the 31st of a month is usually only
overwritten after 61 days.

> Not sure if that matters or not.

It may or may not. Personally I prefer to use find -mtime (or logrotate,
or cleandir, or keepfree, ...) to avoid the irregularities of the
Gregorian calendar.

hp

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