Re: Fwd: Log file

On 10/30/18 9:20 AM, Igor Korot wrote:
> Now is there a command to flush the log - delete the content of it?

The only thing I know of is:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-admin.html

pg_rotate_logfile() boolean Rotate server's log file

>
> All I'm looking for in the log are DDL commands - CREATE/ALTER/DELETE ones.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:32 AM Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Tom,
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 5:08 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:56 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>>> You can set up the log files as readable by the OS group of the server
>>>>> (see log_file_mode), and then grant membership in that group to whichever
>>>>> OS accounts you trust. You may also need to move the log directory
>>>>> out from under $PGDATA to make that work, since PG doesn't like
>>>>> world-readable data directories.
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to make the log file of PG readable of the user who logs in
>>>> to the current
>>>> OS session. I don't need a write permission, just read.
>>>> Because my program will not be started from the "postgres" account.
>>>
>>> Well, any such setup is a serious security hole in itself, because
>>> there is likely to be sensitive data in the postmaster log, eg
>>> passwords. (Remember that the log file is global to the whole cluster,
>>> it will not contain just data relevant to the current session.)
>>> You should only grant access to people who you trust at more or less
>>> the level of trust you'd put in the installation DBA.
>>>
>>> It may be that these concerns are all irrelevant to you because it's
>>> a single-user installation anyway, but they're not irrelevant to
>>> people running multi-user installations. So that's why you can't
>>> get Postgres to do it. In a single-user installation, maybe you
>>> should just launch the postmaster as that user.
>>>
>>> regards, tom lane
>>
>> OK, I understand.
>>
>> Thank you.
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