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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2001-09-23 04:06:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2001-09-23 04:06:24 +0000 |
| commit | 0a24c70a8f8229dba59e5ac31d91c9e8daa3d545 (patch) | |
| tree | 84709a165ebd0d0889c94386c7d55b8018bb344b | |
| parent | 75a8d118d00552b17dadf6f43eabb28eb21f53b8 (diff) | |
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Add mention of log file rotation with mention of syslog SIGHUP capability.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml index 3ed0eff4c49..401da8006c3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.3 2001/09/09 23:52:12 petere Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.4 2001/09/23 04:06:24 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="maintenance"> @@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.3 2001/09/09 23:52:12 <xref linkend="routine-vacuuming">. </para> -<!-- probably ought to have something about log rotation here; - any other important maintenance tasks? ---> + <para> + It is also necessary to rotate the database server log file that is specified + when the <application>postmaster</application> is started. If you are using + <application>syslog</application>, you can send a <literal>SIGHUP</literal> + signal to the syslog daemon to force it to start writing a new log file. + </para> <para> <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is low-maintenance compared to |