Re: A single escape required for log_filename

Stephen Frost wrote:
>> Surely a good log rotator allows a custom rotation action (in this case,  
>> connecting to postgres and calling 'select pg_rotate_logfile()' )
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> Yes, logrotate will happily call external applications.  Maybe I'm
> missing something, but obviously if PG can't be configured with a fixed
> filename, pg_rotate_logfile() doesn't help the situation.
>
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>   

I should think a good rotator tool didn't need a fixed filename either.

I'm not sure what postgres does if the filename contains %% as the only 
escape, although that's would be a fairly ugly hack.

cheers

andrew