Re: should we enable log_checkpoints out of the box?

From: Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: should we enable log_checkpoints out of the box?
Date: 2021-11-02 18:19:49
Message-ID: e27e0f31-2593-125d-8580-81bcb17b8377@wi3ck.info
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On 11/2/21 12:09, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 8:55 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I think shipping with log_checkpoints=on and
>> log_autovacuum_min_duration=10m or so would be one of the best things
>> we could possibly do to allow ex-post-facto troubleshooting of
>> system-wide performance issues. The idea that users care more about
>> the inconvenience of a handful of extra log messages than they do
>> about being able to find problems when they have them matches no part
>> of my experience. I suspect that many users would be willing to incur
>> *way more* useless log messages than those settings would ever
>> generate if it meant that they could actually find problems when and
>> if they have them.
>
> I fully agree.
>

+1

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Jan Wieck

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