Re: postgresql log file not getting update

On 02/28/2013 08:19 AM, Anson Abraham wrote:
> My postgresql-9.0-main.log file has suddenly stopped getting updated. I
> do not know why it stopped all of a sudden. We made a slight modification
> where changed in the postgresql.conf param:
> From
> log_connections = off
> log_disconnections = off
>
> To
>
> log_connections = on
> log_disconnections = on
>
> I'm on a debian environment w/ version 9.0.7. It's a single instance w/
> no cluster on here. It was done w/a simple apt-get install back when,
> when it was a fresh server (we'll call this db1)
>
> I have an identical setup for another server (db4), and when I made the
> change to the same paramers in conf, it's updating the
> postgresql-9.0-main.log file. I reverted the connections and discon
> from on back to off, and did a postgresql reload as well
> as pg_reload_conf(). For both servers. db4 the log file is getting
> updated db1 nothing. I thought the file was locked or some perms may
> have changed and I deleted the postgresql-9.0-main.log file. It didn't
> create a new log file until i did a postgresql reload. It created the
> new file, but still nothing getting written to it.
>
> I know first thing people would say is to restart the instance, but
> restarting is not an option for me in this case.
>
> I've changed
> ucommented out this param
> #log_destination = 'stderr'
>
> to be stderr, and even syslog and did a reload and nothing.
>
>
> I know i should use log collector, but again, that also requires a
> restart as well, unless a reload will work?
>
> The way I reload is /etc/init.d/postgresql reload
>
> The distro for Debian is squeeze. Again, it works on my other server,
> this server it doesn't. Any one have any ideas, where I don't need to
> restart the pg instance?
> Thanks in advance.

Just so I can follow, what are you defining as a server?
Or to put it another way, are db1, db4 separate machines?
Are you sure that a another instance of Postgres did not slip in during
an upgrade?

> -Anson

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