Re: log file rotate

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom, you didn't like Andreas' idea of allowing the user to rotate the
> > log files on demand.
> 
> Give me a use case that requires that, and is sufficiently interesting
> to justify even a marginal decrease in the reliability of the log
> process.
> 
> Frankly, I do not believe that database users should have anything to do
> with the log rotation process.  Do we have a TODO for allowing users to
> force switching to a new WAL file segment?

I thought rotatelogs supported it so we should in cases where someone
wanted to make a new log file to delete an unusually large one, like a 1
gig log file caused by some runaway process.  However, I see rotatelogs
doesn't have that capability so I guess we don't need it either.

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