Re: A single escape required for log_filename

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: A single escape required for log_filename
Date: 2009-01-14 18:08:37
Message-ID: 603c8f070901141008x1a9f123fm993ac172364c68a1@mail.gmail.com
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> If it came down to this, then I'd say rip it out. Naming log files by epoch
> isn't exactly a user-friendly practice anyway, and there are equivalent but
> more readable formatting options available.

There are other alternatives but they're all ugly. For example, we
could make %0 (or some sequence that isn't taken) evaluate to the
empty string, or we could add another GUC to control the
interpretation of this GUC. But I don't think the ugliness is
justified in this instance.

...Robert

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