On 8 March 2012 16:23, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What are the commands to accomplish that, ie getting PostgreSQL to erase the logs?
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:18 +0000, Frank Church wrote:You don't. PostgreSQL does it for you.
> How do you purge the postgresql transaction log?
>
The only security detail AFAIK would be passwords (if you set a password
> 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?
>
and log queries, the password will be in the logs... the only way to
prevent that is to send it crypted).
What are the commands to accomplish that, ie getting PostgreSQL to erase the logs?
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