Re: 8.3 RC1 - Logging and filenames

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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:08:57 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Andy Shellam" <andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > What I want PostgreSQL to do is put a log file "postgresql.log" in
> > "/var/log/pgsql" - I have an application that handles log
> > rotations, so would prefer to do it with that, rather than have
> > PostgreSQL do the rotation.
>
> You don't really have any choice about the matter --- Postgres will
> not use a single fixed filename because that would be guaranteed to
> lose log entries across a rotation.

Unless he is using syslog?

Joshua D. Drake

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