Re: A single escape required for log_filename

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 January 2009 05:23:53 Tom Lane wrote:
>> > However, since there's no standard strftime escape for epoch,
>> > Robert's proposal to rip out the functionality would break any existing
>> > code that still depends on this formatting option.
>>
>> If it came down to this, then I'd say rip it out.  Naming log files by epoch
>> isn't exactly a user-friendly practice anyway, and there are equivalent but
>> more readable formatting options available.
>
> Are we doing anything about this for 8.4?

The patch is trivial and unlikely to break anything, but Tom wasn't
sure it made sense to change the behavior.  I believe he's in the
minority, though.

...Robert