My postgresql-9.0-main.log file has suddenly stopped getting updated. I do not know why it stopped all of a sudden. We made a slight modification
where changed in the postgresql.conf param:
From
log_connections = off
log_disconnections = off
To
log_connections = on
log_disconnections = on
I'm on a debian environment w/ version 9.0.7. It's a single instance w/ no cluster on here. It was done w/a simple apt-get install back when, when it was a fresh server (we'll call this db1)
I have an identical setup for another server (db4), and when I made the change to the same paramers in conf, it's updating the postgresql-9.0-main.log file. I reverted the connections and discon from on back to off, and did a postgresql reload as well as pg_reload_conf(). For both servers. db4 the log file is getting updated db1 nothing. I thought the file was locked or some perms may have changed and I deleted the postgresql-9.0-main.log file. It didn't create a new log file until i did a postgresql reload. It created the new file, but still nothing getting written to it.
I know first thing people would say is to restart the instance, but restarting is not an option for me in this case.
I've changed
ucommented out this param
#log_destination = 'stderr'
to be stderr, and even syslog and did a reload and nothing.
I know i should use log collector, but again, that also requires a restart as well, unless a reload will work?
The way I reload is /etc/init.d/postgresql reload
The distro for Debian is squeeze. Again, it works on my other server, this server it doesn't. Any one have any ideas, where I don't need to restart the pg instance?
