Re: rotatelog / logrotate with PostgreSQL

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: rotatelog / logrotate with PostgreSQL
Date: 2002-09-26 14:38:00
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0209260837470.26236-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:58:22AM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > Well, I've found the syslog facility to be noticeable slower than
> > rotatelogs with pgsql doing its own logging. So that's why I do it the
> > rotatelogs way. Choice is good.
>
> One thing to be careful of is to put a hyphen before the filename in the
> syslog config. This will stop syslog doing a sync() after *every* message,
> which quite noticably kills performance. Also make sure it's only logging to
> the logs you want and not to multiple files.

Thanks, I'll try that.

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