On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:46 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> Let's say you're using logging_collector and you've put some %-escapes 
> into log_filename for daily log rotation.  Perhaps it's daily rotation 
> with this pattern:
> 
> log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d.log'
> 
> Is there any good way to ask the server what log file name it's currently 
> writing to?  I was trying to write something that does a "tail" on the 
> current log, and was hoping there was a simple way to figure out which 
> file that goes against.  Looking for the latest timestamp or running 
> strftime would both work I guess, those just seemed a little heavy (was 
> hoping for an "alias"-sized answer) to figure out something that the 
> server certainly knows.
> 

Sorry my response was dumb. That would be a pain. I checked the admin
functions and there is currently no easy way to do it. Sounds like an
easy thing to add though.

Joshua D. Drake

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