On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:33:15 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> David Lowry <dlowry@bju.edu> writes:
> > The docs state that if there are no %-escapes in log_filename,
> > then it will add the epoch onto the end of the log filename. Is
> > there any way to turn off this behavior and just use the filename
> > specified in log_filename? I'd like have all the log data written
> > to a file like postgresql.log and let logrotate do the rotation.
>
> If logrotate would work, we'd never have bothered writing our own
> substitute. But there's no way for logrotate to repoint postmaster's
> stderr into other files.
Uh... can't we just use copytruncate with logroate? That way
we don't have to repoint. That is how we do it anyway... Or am I missing
something?
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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