| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: A single escape required for log_filename |
| Date: | 2009-02-06 18:08:01 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f070902061008t215703fdqffc697b55da719fb@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 January 2009 05:23:53 Tom Lane wrote:
>> > However, since there's no standard strftime escape for epoch,
>> > Robert's proposal to rip out the functionality would break any existing
>> > code that still depends on this formatting option.
>>
>> If it came down to this, then I'd say rip it out. Naming log files by epoch
>> isn't exactly a user-friendly practice anyway, and there are equivalent but
>> more readable formatting options available.
>
> Are we doing anything about this for 8.4?
The patch is trivial and unlikely to break anything, but Tom wasn't
sure it made sense to change the behavior. I believe he's in the
minority, though.
...Robert
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