Properly document rotatelogs, and add mention of it to pg_ctl manual page.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
index 9dc89b1c5b8e4f937431217900664985a8adca4e..3872efd854fdf4fd59156e4ded1bb5a9fe620f54 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ VACUUM
    you can send a SIGHUP signal to the
    syslog daemon whenever you want to force it to
    start writing a new log file.  If you want to automate log
-   rotation, the logrotate program can be
+   rotation, the rotatelogs program can be
    configured to work with log files from
    syslog.
   
@@ -484,12 +484,12 @@ VACUUM
    pipe command:
 
 
-pg_ctl start | logrotate
+pg_ctl start | rotatelogs /var/log/pgsql_log 86400
 
 
    The PostgreSQL distribution doesn't include a
    suitable log rotation program, but there are many available on the
-   Internet. For example, the logrotate
+   Internet. For example, the rotatelogs
    tool included in the Apache distribution
    can be used with PostgreSQL.
   

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
index e131c3c929126fa1eaf0dcd2c1e26c21855bbb24..2145d9394670964fb580a434b400cce157d683a8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -87,13 +87,13 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    server is started in the background, and standard input is attached to
    /dev/null.  The standard output and standard
    error are either appended to a log file (if the -l
-   option is used), or redirected to  pg_ctl's 
+   option is used), or redirected to pg_ctl's 
    standard output (not standard error).  If no log file is chosen, the 
    standard output of pg_ctl should be redirected 
-   to a file or piped to another process, for example a log rotating program,
-   otherwise postmaster will write its output to the controlling
-   terminal (from the background) and will not leave the shell's
-   process group.
+   to a file or piped to another process such as a log rotating program
+   like rotatelogs; otherwise the postmaster 
+   will write its output to the controlling terminal (from the background) 
+   and will not leave the shell's process group.