mark <markkicks(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I set this on,
> log_checkpoints = on
> and started postgres using this command
> pg_ctl -D /mnt/work/database -l /mnt/work/logs/pgsql.log start
> nothing is getting logged in the logfile. should I turn on some other
> settings?
You're probably looking in the wrong logfile. Depending on what your
log destination settings are, the file mentioned in pg_ctl -l is likely
to see only early-postmaster-startup messages (before it's read the
configuration file and adopted those settings).
regards, tom lane