Re: [PATCH] Log CSV by default

Arkhena <Arkhena(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> As a consultant with so many customers that simply install Postgres "out of
> the box", I think that changing log_destination to 'csvlog' and
> logging_collector to 'on' needs changing at least log_truncate_on_rotation
> (but certainly also log_filename and log_rotation_age) if we don't want my
> customers to run out of space sooner or later.

Yeah, that's another issue that we'd have to confront if we turn
logging_collector on by default: the default settings for log
rotation aren't exactly foolproof, and we'd need to make them so.

(Now having said that, the default setup *without* logging_collector
isn't exactly foolproof either, since wherever you send stderr to
will grow without bound. But maybe people are used to dealing with
that.)

Independently of changing logging_collector's default, perhaps we could
agree on changes to the rotation-related defaults so that it's less
risky to just turn logging_collector on without other changes?

regards, tom lane