Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org> writes:
> Tom> Should work to just pipe the postmaster's stderr into it, eg
> Tom> postmaster ... 2>&1 | logrotate ... &
> Huh? logrotate moves a log file, it doesn't log anything.
My mistake; I was assuming that that script did something else.
What PG is able to work with is a script that absorbs input on
stdin and sends it to a rotatable logfile. Surely there are some
of those out there.
> Does the postmaster close the log after writing?
If it did, how would it reopen it? It doesn't know where its stderr
points...
regards, tom lane