Re: pg_ctl patch to integrate apache's rotatelogs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Hammond <ahammond(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: pg_ctl patch to integrate apache's rotatelogs
Date: 2004-05-15 04:01:13
Message-ID: 3184.1084593673@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Ouch. How long has that documentation been wrong? We have pointed
> folks to that section of the docs tons of times, and no one mentioned
> that "logrotate" is really "rotatelogs", and that it is missing
> parameters?

> I have applied the following patch to document rotatelogs properly.

I think you just broke it. logrotate and rotatelogs are two different
programs, and AFAIK the existing documentation correctly described the
one that is easier to use with Postgres.

regards, tom lane

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