On 11/10/21, 9:43 AM, "Bharath Rupireddy" <bharath.rupireddyforpostg...@gmail.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? They are currently being set into ps display > which is good if the postgres is being run on a standalone box/VM > where users can see the ps display, but it doesn't help much in case > the postgres is being run on a cloud environment where users don't > have access to ps display output. Moreover, the ps display is > transient and will not help to analyze after an issue occurs. > > Having the above messages in the server logs will be useful to > understand how the system is/was doing/progressing with these > (sometimes time-intensive) operations.
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. Nathan
