Re: should we enable log_checkpoints out of the box?

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.

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Justin