On 8 March 2012 16:23, Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:18 +0000, Frank Church wrote: > > How do you purge the postgresql transaction log? > > > > You don't. PostgreSQL does it for you. > > > I am creating a virtual machine image and I want to erase any transaction > > logs that got built up during development. What is the way to do that? > > > > I am currently using 8.3 and 8.4. > > > > Is there the possibility that the logs saved in /var/log also contain > > security details? > > > > The only security detail AFAIK would be passwords (if you set a password > and log queries, the password will be in the logs... the only way to > prevent that is to send it crypted). > > > What are the commands to accomplish that, ie getting PostgreSQL to erase the logs? > -- > Guillaume > http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info > http://www.dalibo.com > >
