Re: pg_ctl patch to integrate apache's rotatelogs

We documented using rotatelogs in the pg_ctl manual page, and have the
main docs correct on how to use it.  Hopefully that will be enough.

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Andrew Hammond wrote:
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> |>logrotate rotates log files and hups the servers according to a
> |>configuration file.  rotatelogs reads the log data on stdin and reopens
> |>a new output file once in a while.  The first hunk of your patch was
> |>wrong, the rest seemed OK.
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> | OK, just to confirm, I backed out the first attached patch, but kept the
> | rest, which is my second attached patch.
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> This looks correct to me.
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> | I am still confused how these errors remained in the documentation for
> | so long.
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> Probably because non-syslog logging in a production environment is a
> very small niche. Which might, unfortunately, be a good argument against
> my proposed patch.
>
> Drew
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