On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > scott.marlowe wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > > > > You could also consider not using syslog at all: let the postmaster > > > > output to its stderr, and pipe that into a log-rotation program. > > > > I believe some people use Apache's log rotator for this with good > > > > results. > > > > > > Not an option I'm afraid. PostgreSQL just jams and stops logging after > > > the first rotation... > > > > > > I've read in the docs that syslog logging is the only "production" > > > solution... > > > > Can you use the apache log rotator? It's known to work in my environment > > (redhat 7.2, postgresql 7.2 and 7.4) with this command to start it in my > > rc.local file: > > > > su - postgres -c 'pg_ctl start | rotatelogs $PGDATA/pglog 86400 2>1&' > > Sure, our documentation specifically mentions using rotatelogs.
hehe. What I meant was can Christopher use it, or does he have a limitation in his environment where he can't get ahold of the apache log rotater... :-) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match