Re: How to get previous log file

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to get previous log file
Date: 2020-06-28 15:11:54
Message-ID: 838b1bf7-cdf0-2be7-cc28-9800f3bdee36@aklaver.com
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On 6/28/20 2:42 AM, Andrus wrote:
> Hi!
>
> select pg_read_file(pg_current_logfile())
> retrieves today log file.
> Log files are in log directory:
>
> /var/lib/postgresql/12/main/log# ls
> ...
> postgresql-2020-06-08_000000.log  postgresql-2020-06-18_000000.log
> postgresql-2020-06-28_000000.log
> postgresql-2020-06-09_000000.log  postgresql-2020-06-19_000000.log
>
> How get yesterday log file from remote client application using
> postgresql query ?
> Using Postgres 12 in Debian.

You where half way there:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/functions-admin.html

pg_ls_dir() -- To get file names.

pg_read_file() -- Using file name from above.

>
> Andrus.
>
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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