Re: more contrib: log rotator

Andrew Sullivan writes:

> But it's not available on every platform. And according to my
> /usr/share/doc/logrotate/copyright, it's GPL, so you can't
> redistribute it with PostgreSQL. Building it in was one of the
> criteria, I thought

My point was that log file rotation should be left up to the system
administrator. Look at other servers on your system (SMTP, DNS,
whatever). How do they handle it?

> > And we already depend on cron for vacuuming anyway.
>
> But that dependency is actually a liability, because there's no way
> to say, "Hey, I really need to be vacuumed now."

psql -c 'VACUUM' ?

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