Re: log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime()

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
> > I don't have the time now to review the impact, but this might make
> > interpreting the log filename difficult or impossible, effectively
> > corrupting pg_logdir_ls.
>
> So if you want to use that, you use a format that it can cope with.
> I don't see a problem.
>
> (This is probably an OK reason to keep the default log_filename in
> Y/M/D/H/M/S style, though, rather than ".epoch" style.)

Ah, so we keep the existing format but drop the pid, and just make it
changable by the user, and we rename it. Doesn't sound as drastic as it
first did.

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