Re: Log rotation?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> With all the great work put into allowing true 24/7 operation, as
> distributed we're still unable to rotate the log file.  While the log file
> tends to be smaller than the database system as a whole, this is still
> going to annoy people because they can't control disk usage without taking
> the server down.

> I've been playing with a little program I wrote whose sole purpose is to
> write its stdin to a file and close and reopen that file when it receives
> a signal.  I figured this could work well when integrated transparently
> into pg_ctl.

Aren't there log-rotation utilities out there already?  (I seem to
recall mention that Apache has one, for instance.)  Seems like this
is a wheel we shouldn't have to reinvent.

Also, I kinda thought the long-range solution was to encourage everyone
to migrate to syslog logging ...

> And no, "use syslog" doesn't count.

Why not?
        regards, tom lane