Re: Upgrading postmaster's log messages about bind/listen errors

On 11 March 2017 at 03:24, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 3/9/17 23:43, Tom Lane wrote:
>> However, if we're measuring this on a scale of usefulness to the average
>> DBA, I would argue that it's of more interest than any of these messages
>> that currently appear by default:
>>
>> 2017-03-09 23:40:12.334 EST [19335] LOG: MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled
>> 2017-03-09 23:40:12.335 EST [19339] LOG: autovacuum launcher started
>> 2017-03-09 23:40:12.336 EST [19341] LOG: logical replication launcher started
>>
>> The first of those is surely past its sell-by date. As for the other two,
>> we should log *failure* to start, but not the normal case.
>
> I'm OK with removing these. No news is good news.

Right, and it doesn't tell us that autovacuum will actually do
anything useful. The user could've set ridiculous thresholds/delays,
per-table overrides, etc.

So it's not much use for remote support/diagnostics, and might as well go away.

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