Kouber Saparev wrote: > I am trying to write a function in C to return the log file name by given timestamp. I > will use that later to make dynamic creation of a foreign table (file_fdw) to read the csv > logs themselves. The thing is I do now want to hardcode neither the format, nor the > directory in my extension. > > I already looked into the adminpack extension, but the format is hardcoded to the default > one there, so it does not serve my needs. > > Here is what I currently have: > https://gist.github.com/kouber/89b6e5b647452a672a446b12413e20cf > > > The thing is the function is returning random results, obtained by pg_strftime(). > > kouber=# select now()::timestamp, sqlog.log_path(now()::timestamp); > NOTICE: Log directory = "pg_log" > NOTICE: Log filename = "postgresql-%F.log" > NOTICE: Length = "7" > NOTICE: Filename = "pg_log/postgresql-17422165-04-30.log" > now | log_path > ----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > 2017-06-02 14:17:47.832446 | pg_log/postgresql-17422165-04-30.csv > (1 row) > > kouber=# select now()::timestamp, sqlog.log_path(now()::timestamp); > NOTICE: Log directory = "pg_log" > NOTICE: Log filename = "postgresql-%F.log" > NOTICE: Length = "7" > NOTICE: Filename = "pg_log/postgresql-17422166-02-08.log" > now | log_path > ----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > 2017-06-02 14:18:12.390558 | pg_log/postgresql-17422166-02-08.csv > (1 row) > > > > > > Any idea what am I doing wrong? > > > I copied logfile_getname() from syslogger.c, and simply added some debug messages in > there. You are mixing up "Timestamp" and "pg_time_t". Both are int64, but the former contains the number of microseconds since 2000-01-01 00:00:00, while the latter represents "the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)" (quote from "man localtime"). Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
