Re: more contrib: log rotator

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-04-05T00:03:03Z
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Tom Lane writes:

> AFAICS, the only practical way to do this is to have a single process
> collecting the stdout/stderr from the postmaster and all its children.

I think not.  It's a little tricky handling it directly in the child
processes, but it's been done before.

> If someone can offer a better alternative than Andrew's, great, let's
> see it.

How about the attached one, which I floated a while ago but which didn't
generate much interest.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net