| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Ed L(dot)" <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime() |
| Date: | 2004-08-29 19:25:09 |
| Message-ID: | 11357.1093807509@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>> You are ignoring a critical part of the proposal, which is to overwrite
>> only during a time-based rotation; at logger startup or size-based
>> rotation, the rule would be to append.
> which then has a problem when you startup the postmaster after 10 hours
> of downtime ... hmmm.
Doesn't seem like a big problem --- at worst that logfile will get to be
double the size it normally would.
Note that this scheme effectively disables size-based rotation anyway,
unless you use one of the hacks we talked about like using a %H:%M
pattern when you intend hourly rotation.
regards, tom lane
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