| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: rename pg_log directory? |
| Date: | 2017-02-27 14:51:26 |
| Message-ID: | 22854.1488207086@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> How about changing the default for log_directory from 'pg_log' to, say,
> 'log'?
> We have been emphasizing that the prefix "pg_" is for things reserved to
> PostgreSQL, whereas the pg_log directory is entirely an arbitrary
> user-space name. Also, with a different name, the directory would stand
> out more between all the other pg_* directories in the data directory.
No objection to the basic point, but "log" seems perhaps a little too
generic to me. Would something like "server_log" be better?
regards, tom lane
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