* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > I have perfectly good log rotation utility that exists on my OS. (yes I > > am aware of the possibility of losing a log entry when using logrotate). > > You might think you do, but it won't work with PG; external rotators > only work with programs that respond to SIGHUP by re-opening their log > files.
logrotate will work well enough using copytruncate. It's certainly unfortunate that PostgreSQL doesn't provide a better mechanism. Thanks, Stephen
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