Re: rotatelog / logrotate with PostgreSQL

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:58:22AM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > Well, I've found the syslog facility to be noticeable slower than 
> > rotatelogs with pgsql doing its own logging.  So that's why I do it the 
> > rotatelogs way.  Choice is good.
> 
> One thing to be careful of is to put a hyphen before the filename in the
> syslog config. This will stop syslog doing a sync() after *every* message,
> which quite noticably kills performance. Also make sure it's only logging to
> the logs you want and not to multiple files.

Thanks, I'll try that.