Re: Postgres Logging doesnt work

Thanks! Shoaib, that worked real good. Not sure why it stopped in the
first place.

Shoaib Mir wrote:
> I guess that might work:
>
> 1. Set the following in postgresql.conf file --> log_rotation_age = 1
> 2. rename the already present log file from dbserver logs folder
> 3. Now do --> pg_ctl reload (so that log_rotation_age change you did
> comes in affect)
> 4. Check the log folder after a while (after 1 minutes) and it will be
> having a new log file and doing all the logging there
> 5. After it starts the logging you can revert the change done to
> rotation_age and do a reload again.
>
> Thanks,
> ---
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com>)
>
>
>
> On 10/2/06, *Pallav Kalva * <pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com
> <mailto:pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks! for the reply, it is a small file. the file size on it is
> 735K that's pretty small. Not sure why it stopped writing to the log
> file, is there any way to start logging without starting postgres ?
>
> Pallav.
>
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:04:11AM -0400, Pallav Kalva wrote:
> >
> >> Hi ,
> >>
> >> My production database stopped writting to the postgres log
> files
> >> all of a sudden, does anybody know why ?
> >>
> >
> > How big is the file?
> >
> >
> >> log_rotation_age | 10080
> >> log_rotation_size | 0
> >>
> >
> > You've set this up to rotate once every 10,080 minutes, no matter
> > what. If you've run into a file size limit, then you'll be out of
> > luck until the next file is opened, which should be on the same day
> > of the week the postmaster was last started. Just a guess.
> >
> > A
> >
> >
>
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