On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM Paul Brindusa <paulbrindusa88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Good morning everyone,
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> Before I get on with today's problem, I would like to say how much I appreciate this community and everything that you do for end users.
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> In today's problem I would like to understand if the following lines in our config handle the log rotation for our clusters?
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> log_checkpoints: on
> logging_collector: on
> log_truncate_on_rotation: on
> log_rotation_age: 1d
> log_rotation_size: 1GB
> log_error_verbosity: verbose
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> I have been deleting the logs manually for the last month, since I am confused how the log collector rotates them.
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> Am looking to delete logs older than 180 days. What are we doing wrong in the config?
I doubt Postgres can do this, but you can do this by adding a crontab
entry. e.g.
0 2 * * * find /path/to/logs -type f -mtime +180 -name "*.log" -exec rm {} \;
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> Kind Regards,
> Paul Brindusa
> paulbrindusa88@xxxxxxxxx
>
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Regards
Junwang Zhao
