Re: logfile rotation

Andreas Pflug wrote:

>
>> We agreed long ago that the
>> postmaster should never depend on the correctness of any shared memory
>> data structure; but this patch would make it do so.
>>  
>>
> I understand that, so what's the suggested way to store data common 
> for all backends?


Answering my own question, the distribution of the current logfile name 
could be done trough a file handle. So the only thing remaining in 
shared mem would be the "reopen logfile" flag, which seems 
nonproblematic. In case of garbled sharedmem, a backend would reopen the 
logfile, which does no harm at all, or continue writing the outdated 
logfile which would be annoying but not harmful either.

Acceptable?

Regards,
Andreas