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Re: Reopen logfile on SIGHUP

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-10T18:21:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> IOW, I think a fair response to this is "if you're using logrotate with
> Postgres, you're doing it wrong".

Well, the original post says that this is how the PGDG RPMs are doing
it on Debian/Ubuntu.  I wonder if that's due to some Debian/Ubuntu
policy or just a preference on the part of whoever did the packaging
work.  Anyway it's a little hard to argue that the configuration is
insane when we're shipping it.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. Implement "pg_ctl logrotate" command