On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:46 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > Let's say you're using logging_collector and you've put some %-escapes > into log_filename for daily log rotation. Perhaps it's daily rotation > with this pattern: > > log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d.log' > > Is there any good way to ask the server what log file name it's currently > writing to? I was trying to write something that does a "tail" on the > current log, and was hoping there was a simple way to figure out which > file that goes against. Looking for the latest timestamp or running > strftime would both work I guess, those just seemed a little heavy (was > hoping for an "alias"-sized answer) to figure out something that the > server certainly knows. > show log_filename; ? Then just grab the strftime string? Joshua D. Drake > -- > * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD > -- -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
