On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 08:02:41PM -0400, Tom Lane 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.)
The default also has logging_collector=off, so is ENOSPC really a concern for anyone at all ? I think there's no issue for distros who distribute postgres with their own modified defaults, since they can either use their own customized default with log_checkpoints=off, or they can accommodate our "default default". Debian uses logging_collector=off but does its own redirection, with log rotation and compression. That's the case that Robert described. -- Justin
