Re: FW: Serverlog 100GB

Thanks Tom,

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/logfile-maintenance.html

I'll go over this documentation.

Thanks again
Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:37 PM
To: Randy How
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FW: Serverlog 100GB

"Randy How" <rhow(at)i3(dot)com> writes:
> We're running PostGres on linux, version 8.1.x. on a new server for a
> few weeks. And the serverlog just consumed the rest of the disk space
> - 100GB log file. Wow, that's a personal record.

Perhaps choose less verbose logging settings? But really the correct answer
to this is to set up a logfile rotation schedule, which you can easily do
with either syslog or redirect_stderr log methods. I'd lean to the latter
myself.

regards, tom lane

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