Re: Log files, how to rotate properly

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: Dave Cramer <Dave@micro-automation.net>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-13T20:39:48Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Lamar Owen writes:

> Use syslog.  Syslog has many advantages:
> 1.)	Easily rollable.
> 2.)	Redirectable to various files and/or remote machines -- including
> hardcopy, and including multiple files at once (splitting).
> 3.)	PostgreSQL 7.1 has excellent syslog support.
> 4.)	You don't have to shut anything down to roll the logs.
> 5.)	Thanks to item 2, you could have a single syslog machine accept the
> syslog output of multiple PostgreSQL servers, integrating the log into one,
> if you wish.

Disadvantage:

Some messages will get lost.

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