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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

The server log can be in a few different places, so let's list all of them first, so that we can locate the log or decide where we want it to be placed:

  • The server log may be in a directory beneath the data directory.
  • It may be in a directory elsewhere on the filesystem.
  • It may be redirected to syslog.
  • There may be no server log at all. Then it's time to add a log soon.

If not redirected to syslog, the server log consists of one or more files. You can change the names of these files, so it may not always be the same on every system.

On Debian or Ubuntu systems, the default server log location is /var/log/postgresql. The current server log file is named postgresql-R.r-main.log, where R.r represents the major and minor release ...

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