Re: Reopen logfile on SIGHUP

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Anastasia Lubennikova <a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reopen logfile on SIGHUP
Date: 2018-02-27 23:39:18
Message-ID: 20180227233918.dyqg5lx5edfmwz2l@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2018-02-27 16:20:28 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > IOW, I think a fair response to this is "if you're using logrotate with
> > Postgres, you're doing it wrong". That was of some use back before we
> > spent so much sweat on the syslogger, but it's not a reasonable setup
> > today.
> >
>
> A couple of weeks ago a message was posted to general [1] in which I
> concluded the desired behavior is not supported natively. I'm curious
> whether better advice than mine can be given ...
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKoQ0XHAy9De1C8gxUWHSW6w5iKcqX03wyWGe_%2Bc8NxJccCBHw%40mail(dot)gmail(dot)com#CAKoQ0XHAy9De1C8gxUWHSW6w5iKcqX03wyWGe_+c8NxJccCBHw(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com

That link appears to be broken. Real one
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKoQ0XHAy9De1C8gxUWHSW6w5iKcqX03wyWGe_+c8NxJccCBHw@mail.gmail.com

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