Re: Log files, how to rotate properly

Lamar Owen writes:

> On Wednesday 13 June 2001 16:39, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Lamar Owen writes:
> > > Use syslog. Syslog has many advantages:
> > Disadvantage:
>
> > Some messages will get lost.
>
> I have yet to see a 'lost' syslog message here, in over three years.

I didn't mean sylog losing messages, but some PostgreSQL messages not
getting there.

> Which is worse, though:
> 1.) An occasional lost log message;
> 2.) Downtime due to pulling down the entire server to rotate a log.
>
> If syslog looses messages, let's try helping fix syslog rather than
> recommending Yet Another Log Rotating Solution.

YALRS is fine by me. Note that syslog requires root access, which we
don't want to require.

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