| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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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>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: log file rotate |
| Date: | 2004-08-08 10:15:01 |
| Message-ID: | 4115FD25.6000201@pse-consulting.de |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Give me a use case that requires that, and is sufficiently interesting
> to justify even a marginal decrease in the reliability of the log
> process.
>
> Frankly, I do not believe that database users should have anything to do
> with the log rotation process.
The (super)user will sometimes purge old files, so he *does* have to do
something with the rotation process' output. It's up to him what he
regards as old, maybe everything before 'now'.
YAUC (yet another use case): rotating every day at 3 am.
Regards,
Andreas
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