On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:18 +0000, Frank Church wrote: > How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? > You don't. PostgreSQL does it for you. > I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction > logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? > > I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. > > Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain > security details? > The only security detail AFAIK would be passwords (if you set a password and log queries, the password will be in the logs... the only way to prevent that is to send it crypted). -- Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general