Re: serverlog rotation/functions

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug wrote:
> 
> > Right.  We already have to use shared mem for the backends and
> > postmaster.  It is the logger we are worried about.
> > 
> > Tom brought up the point that if the logger used shared memory, we would
> > have to kill/restart it if we need to reinitialize shared memory,
> 
> I don't know why that particular segment should ever be renewed. Anyway, 
> it's gone.

As I remember, we have one big shared memory segment.  Where you
creating a special one just for this timestamp?  If you were, I see why
your approach was safer, but as you said, it doesn't buy us much anyway.

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