Log rotation?
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-09-05T01:12:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
With all the great work put into allowing true 24/7 operation, as distributed we're still unable to rotate the log file. While the log file tends to be smaller than the database system as a whole, this is still going to annoy people because they can't control disk usage without taking the server down. I've been playing with a little program I wrote whose sole purpose is to write its stdin to a file and close and reopen that file when it receives a signal. I figured this could work well when integrated transparently into pg_ctl. So, is log rotation a concern? Is this a reasonable solution? Other ideas? (No Grand Unified Logging Solutions please. And no, "use syslog" doesn't count.) -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter