Re: [HACKERS] Suggestions

On Mon, 4 May 1998, David Gould wrote:

> > On Sun, 3 May 1998, Michael Richards wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > > I have a suggestion. I would be interested in implementing it if ppl think
> > > it is a good idea.
> > >
> > > Why not have a default location where postgres writes its log files. The
> > > current way of doing it seems to be a little klunky.
> > > I have an either/or suggested fix.
> > > a) add a switch to specify where the info and the errors files go,
> > > /var/log/postgres/info and maybe /var/log/postgres/errors
> > >
> > > b) write all the stuff to syslog
> >
> > b) is the preferred way of doing it...it should just be a matter
> > of adding it to backend/utils/elog.c ...
> >
>
> One problem might be that postgres can write _a_ _lot_ of messages to
> the log and I would not want to fill my /var/log partition with them as
> this would interfere with other logging.

Use syslog.conf to redirect to a different file on a different
partition...benefit to using syslog is that you can rotate the log files
wihtout having to restart the postmaster ...