Re: Log rotation

Robert Treat wrote:
>
> Different postmasters = different conf files. Just set your syslog_facility
> and/or your syslog_ident differently and it should be pretty easy to seperate
> the logs. Actually, now that I have started using syslog fairly regularly, I
> find it hard to believe it would be worth the effort to try to recreate a
> logging facility as feature complete as syslog when we have syslog available.
> ranks right up there with recreate cron, another feature many people think an
> enterprise database "has to have". Personally I think in place upgrades are
> far, far more important than either of those two, to both end users and to
> the development community.
>

The concerns with syslog were related to performance (additional load on
the server). Perhaps these concerns were unfounded.

I am not saying that upgrades are not important. I have been asking for
it and have even tried to come up with a process to keep a continuously
functional pg_upgrade program in synch with the cvs head development,
even adding bits to the catalog for one release to aloow the conversion
to be done. Ask Bruce and Tom, I've mentioned this to them 2 or 3 years ago.

But the log rotation is a relatively small task in comparison, and it is
at least as equaly visible in terms of production users (at least in
the enterprise). I am talking about benefit/effort ratio.

Regards,
Fernando