* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@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