On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Joshua D. Drake<j...@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:24 -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>>   In actual practice, full query logging
>> is 1/50 the amount of disk I/O as the actual database activity.  If your
>> systems are so stressed that they can't handle another 2% increase, then
>> you've got bigger problems lurking.
>
> It depends on the system. I have seen even big systems take a huge hit
> by full logging due to transactional velocity.
>
> Joshua D. Drake

I've seen this too.  On high transaction load systems, log_statement
has big overhead.  I haven't tested this lately though, and I suspect
this information is version dependent (in the 'old' days, it used to
be a really big deal).

merlin

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