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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index 069ab9a8fb..b3b65f5f0d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.209 2009/02/22 23:50:30 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.210 2009/02/24 12:09:08 petere Exp $ --> <chapter Id="runtime-config"> <title>Server Configuration</title> @@ -2398,17 +2398,21 @@ local0.* /var/log/postgresql so <literal>%</literal>-escapes can be used to specify time-varying file names. (Note that if there are any time-zone-dependent <literal>%</literal>-escapes, the computation - is done in the zone specified by <xref linkend="guc-log-timezone">.) - If no <literal>%</literal>-escapes are present, - <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> will append the epoch of the new - log file's creation time. For example, if - <varname>log_filename</varname> were <literal>server_log</literal>, - then the chosen file name would be <literal>server_log.1093827753</> - for a log starting at Sun Aug 29 19:02:33 2004 MST. + is done in the zone specified + by <xref linkend="guc-log-timezone">.) Note that the system's <systemitem>strftime</systemitem> is not used directly, so platform-specific (nonstandard) extensions do not work. </para> <para> + If you specify a file name without escapes, you should plan to + use a log rotation utility to avoid eventually filling the + entire disk. In releases prior to 8.4, if + no <literal>%</literal> escapes were + present, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> would append + the epoch of the new log file's creation time, but this is no + longer the case. + </para> + <para> If CSV-format output is enabled in <varname>log_destination</>, <literal>.csv</> will be appended to the timestamped log file name to create the file name for CSV-format output. |