Re: syslog_line_prefix

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: syslog_line_prefix
Date: 2009-09-25 20:33:59
Message-ID: 9837222c0909251333m1ad26958ra487c82690e48446@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 22:18, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Other than if you're logging all your queries (or over <n> time, where
>> <n> is very small), I've never seen a system with performance issues
>> from logging. I'm sure others may have, but not me.
>>
>> Is there really any log output other than the
>> query-logging-for-performance-analysis that is likely to cause any
>> real load on the system? If not, perhaps we need to break out that
>> part to a separate codepath instead, and optimize that one for speed,
>> while optimizing the other paths for flexibility?
>
> Not sure, but I doubt it's that easy.

If we are talking about the "log query duration" or "log queries
longer than <n>" that's a single location in the code. It can't be
that hard...

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Magnus Hagander
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