Thanks Tom, http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/logfile-maintenance.html I'll go over this documentation. Thanks again Randy -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:37 PM To: Randy How Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FW: Serverlog 100GB "Randy How" <rhow@xxxxxx> writes: > We're running PostGres on linux, version 8.1.x. on a new server for a > few weeks. And the serverlog just consumed the rest of the disk space > - 100GB log file. Wow, that's a personal record. Perhaps choose less verbose logging settings? But really the correct answer to this is to set up a logfile rotation schedule, which you can easily do with either syslog or redirect_stderr log methods. I'd lean to the latter myself. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings