From: | Gabriel Parrondo <gabriel(dot)parrondo(at)ultragestion(dot)com(dot)ar> |
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To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: How to clear log files |
Date: | 2010-02-04 00:46:39 |
Message-ID: | 1265244399.2838.4.camel@debian2 |
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El mié, 03-02-2010 a las 15:12 -0600, Campbell, Lance escribió:
> PostgreSql:8.4.1
>
> Is there a way for me to tell postgres to clear the log file.
> Example: I have log files created with names corresponding to the
> days of the week. This way they overwrite each other every week.
> When I deploy software enhancements I would like to clear the log file
> for the day without having to stop postgres. This way anything I see
> I know was after the deployment of my enhancements. I tried to just
> delete the file with postgres running. I found that it did not
> recreate the log file so I was forced to restart postgres.
>
Actually, when you delete an opened file it isn't really deleted.
Whatever program opened it can still read/write to it using the file
descriptor.
> Is there a command that might clear a log file or force it to rotate?
Truncating it like this should work:
echo > /path/to/logfile
There's probably a better way though.
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