Re: log_filename_prefix --> log_filename + strftime()

On 8/29/2004 5:12 AM, Andreas Pflug wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
>>
>>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>>I can see the value of not needing any cron daemon to remove old logs.
>>
>>
>>>No other logs on your system to purge?
>>
>>
>> The DBA isn't necessarily also root.
>
> Interesting this argument comes from you.. :-)
>
> Tasks like purging old log files is certainly not a job that needs to be
> implemented in the backend; instead, an external database maintenance
> agent should do that.

You must have misunderstood something here. The proposal doesn't
implement any logfile purging feature, but allows to setup a
configuration that automatically overwrites files in a rotating manner,
if the DBA so desires. I can't see how you're jumping to logfile purging
from that.


Jan

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