Re: add recovery, backup, archive, streaming etc. activity messages to server logs along with ps display

On 11/10/21, 9:43 AM, "Bharath Rupireddy" <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> As discussed in [1], isn't it a better idea to add some of activity
> messages [2] such as recovery, archive, backup, streaming etc. to
> server logs at LOG level? They are currently being set into ps display
> which is good if the postgres is being run on a standalone box/VM
> where users can see the ps display, but it doesn't help much in case
> the postgres is being run on a cloud environment where users don't
> have access to ps display output. Moreover, the ps display is
> transient and will not help to analyze after an issue occurs.
>
> Having the above messages in the server logs will be useful to
> understand how the system is/was doing/progressing with these
> (sometimes time-intensive) operations.

I think this would make the logs far too noisy for many servers. For
archiving alone, this could cause tens of thousands more log messages
per hour on a busy system. I think you can already see such
information at a debug level, anyway.

Nathan