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Re: more contrib: log rotator

Ed L. <pgsql@bluepolka.net>

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From: "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net>
To: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-04-04T17:06:42Z
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On Friday April 4 2003 10:04, Ed L. wrote:
> By way of feature ideas, one very convenient but not widely used feature
> of Apache's log rotator is the ability to specify a strftime() format
> string for the file extension.  For example, if I want to have my logs
> rollover every 24 hours and be named log.Mon, log.Tue, log.Wed, I say
> something like
>
> 	pg_ctl start | rotatelogs 86400 "%a"

More accurately, something like this:

	pg_ctl start | rotatelogs 86400 "log.%a"

Ed