Re: [ADMIN] syslog slowing the database?

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:34:54AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >You could also consider not using syslog at all: let the postmaster
> >output to its stderr, and pipe that into a log-rotation program.
>
> Not an option I'm afraid. PostgreSQL just jams and stops logging after
> the first rotation...

Actually, this is what we do. Last year we offered an (admittedly
expensive) bespoke log rotator written in Perl for just this purpose.
It was rejected on the grounds that it didn't do anything Apache's
rotator didn't do, so I didn't pursue it. I'm willing to put it up
on gborg, though, if anyone thinks it'll be worth having around.
FWIW, we use ours in production.

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