Re: add recovery, backup, archive, streaming etc. activity messages to server logs along with ps display

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: add recovery, backup, archive, streaming etc. activity messages to server logs along with ps display
Date: 2021-11-11 12:37:41
Message-ID: 202111111237.pnggapibqvwu@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Nov-10, Bossart, Nathan wrote:

> On 11/10/21, 9:43 AM, "Bharath Rupireddy" <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > As discussed in [1], isn't it a better idea to add some of activity
> > messages [2] such as recovery, archive, backup, streaming etc. to
> > server logs at LOG level?

> I think this would make the logs far too noisy for many servers. For
> archiving alone, this could cause tens of thousands more log messages
> per hour on a busy system. I think you can already see such
> information at a debug level, anyway.

Yeah. If we had some sort of ring buffer in which to store these
messages, the user could examine them through a view; they would still
be accessible in a running server, but they would not be written to the
server log.

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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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