Re: logfile subprocess and Fancy File Functions

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> > process the timestamp field in queries.  Good idea.  What happens if a
> > filename matches the above pattern but isn't a valid timestamp?  Does
> > the function fail?
>
> Right now, BuildTupleFromCString will fail for invalid timestamps.
>
> I'm going to change that to pgsql's internal function (strptime seems a
> bad idea though).

Tom used abstimein() in xlog.c.

> > My only question is whether we need to allow a custom prefix for the
> > log filenames so they can be distinguished from other file names in a
> > user-supplied log directory, like /var/log, or would they always go into
> > a separate directory under there.  I think a prefix would be nice.
>
> How should the prefix be named? pgsql_ ?

I would default to that, yes, but allow the user to set it via GUC
variable.  You want to hard-code the time part of the file name so you
can load it into a timestamp, but we should give users control over a
prefix just in case they mix the files in a directory with log files
from other applications.

> > Of course this needs docs but I assume you are waiting to see it applied
> > first.
>
> Not necessarily, but I'd like names etc. fixed before.

Sure.

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