Re: log file rotate

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Give me a use case that requires that, and is sufficiently interesting
> to justify even a marginal decrease in the reliability of the log
> process.
> 
> Frankly, I do not believe that database users should have anything to do
> with the log rotation process.

The (super)user will sometimes purge old files, so he *does* have to do 
something with the rotation process' output. It's up to him what he 
regards as old, maybe everything before 'now'.

YAUC (yet another use case): rotating every day at 3 am.

Regards,
Andreas