On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 5:02 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I'm still of the position that the default ought to be that a > normally-functioning server generates no ongoing log output. > Only people who have got Nagios watching their logs, or some > such setup, are going to want anything different. And that is > a minority use-case. There are going to be way more people > bitching because their postmaster log overflowed their disk > than there will be people who are happier because you made > such output the default. (Don't forget that our default > logging setup does not rotate the logs.) >
Is it known how many new Postgres installations are from popular packages (that have log rotation enabled) compared to custom-built and managed in their own way? If people do not use packages these days, they should take care of themselves – it includes log rotation and, for example, autostart. The same people who might complain of overflowed disks should already be complaining about Postgres not surviving machine restarts, right? Nik
