Re: Add strftime escapes to Log config

On sön, 2011-03-20 at 13:32 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> This page:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHERE
>
> has the following text:
>
> The value is treated as a strftime pattern, so %-escapes can be used to
> specify time-varying file names.
>
> However, nowhere in our docs do we list sample strftime escapes. This
> means that PG DBAs who are not programmers (and even some who are) end
> up googling for them all the time. So I would like to add the following
> text:
>
> Useful excape codes which are available on most platforms include: %Y =
> year, %m = month, %d = day of month, %H = hour, %M = minute, %a = short
> weekday name, and %b = short month name.

We could also link to
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html>, for
example.