| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: more contrib: log rotator |
| Date: | 2003-04-06 21:03:27 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0304062209340.2655-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Tom Lane writes:
> Seems like a good bare-bones file writer; but how about all those
> frammishes that people ask for like generating date-based filenames,
> switching every so many bytes, etc? Also, it'd be nice not to be
> dependent on a cron job to tickle the switchover.
Linux systems have a standard system log rotation mechanism (see
logrotate(8)), which can rotate logs by size and time and has a number of
other features. I would rather depend on that kind of preferred system
mechanism than rolling out our own. And we already depend on cron for
vacuuming anyway.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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