Re: HD is flooded by Error Log info

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:20:30PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> - pg_log file archiving when we reach a certain volume/number of logs
>
> IMO, by the time we get that complicated, admins need to start doing some
> work.  That is, I think, work that should be nowhere near the main
> PostgreSQL code.  If someone wants to set up a foundry project for nice
> crontab suggestions and Windows scheduler suggestions (however that works),
> that'd be rather another matter.

Surely this is what logrotate and syslog-ng etc are for. This is a
sysadmin problem not a DBA problem - any service can generate a lot of logs.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd