With all the great work put into allowing true 24/7 operation, as
distributed we're still unable to rotate the log file. While the log file
tends to be smaller than the database system as a whole, this is still
going to annoy people because they can't control disk usage without taking
the server down.
I've been playing with a little program I wrote whose sole purpose is to
write its stdin to a file and close and reopen that file when it receives
a signal. I figured this could work well when integrated transparently
into pg_ctl.
So, is log rotation a concern? Is this a reasonable solution? Other
ideas?
(No Grand Unified Logging Solutions please. And no, "use syslog" doesn't
count.)
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter