Re: 8.3 RC1 - Logging and filenames

Hi all,

But surely if the rotation is disabled, PostgreSQL will just append to the
log if it exists (hence the extra option of "truncate on rotation?")

Many services use a single log file and just keep adding to it - that's the
way I'd prefer to set PostgreSQL up, simply so I can predict what the log
file's name is. Our rotation system will then rotate the log and keep the
name in the same format as all our other services.

Andy

On 1/11/08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> You don't really have any choice about the matter --- Postgres will
> >> not use a single fixed filename because that would be guaranteed to
> >> lose log entries across a rotation.

> Unless he is using syslog?
>
> True, if you really dislike the way that the built-in log collector
> works, syslog is probably your best alternative.
>
> regards, tom lane
>