Re: A single escape required for log_filename

<p><font size="2">Robert Haas wrote:<br /><br /><br /> > > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
writes:<br/> > >> When I set it up, it automatically appended the time so I got:<br /> > >>
postgresql.log.1231878270<br/> > >> That seems a bit, well wrong. If I say I want postgresql.log I should<br
/>> >> get postgresql.log.<br /> > ><br /> > > You'd probably reconsider around the time the log
filefilled your disk.<br /> > > You really *don't* want a single fixed filename, you want some kind of<br /> >
>rotation series.<br /> ><br /> > Clearly so, but it does seem a bit odd if there's really NO way to<br />
>insist on a particular fixed filename.<br /><br /> Indeed ... some of us have scripts that count on a given name.
Fiddlingthem to look for the most recent seems like an unwarranted bit of busy work. Or am I missing something ? If I
_want_a foot-deringer, isn't that my business ?<br /><br /> My $0.02 worth (less and less, every day)<br /><br /> Greg
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