Re: more contrib: log rotator

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Andrew Sullivan writes:
>
> > Is anyone interested in having pglog-rotator?
>
> What would get me a whole lot more excited is if the server could write
> directly to a file and do its own rotating (or at least reopening of
> files).
>
> Considering that your rotator is tailored to a rather specific setup, it
> doesn't do anything better compared to established ones, it prevents the
> use of pg_ctl, it's written in Perl, and it doesn't do anything for
> Windows users, I think it's not suitable for a general audience.

That said, a log rotation capability built right into pg_ctl or
thereabouts would be a very nice feature. I.e. 'pg_ctl -r 86400 -l
$PGDATA/logs/pgsql start'

where -r is the rotation period in seconds. If it's an external program
that pg_ctl calls that's fine, and it could even just be a carbon copy of
apache's log rotater if their license is compatible (isn't it?)