Re: should we enable log_checkpoints out of the box?

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 5:02 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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.)
>

Is it known how many new Postgres installations are from
popular packages (that have log rotation enabled) compared
to custom-built and managed in their own way?

If people do not use packages these days, they should take
care of themselves – it includes log rotation and, for example,
autostart. The same people who might complain of overflowed
disks should already be complaining about Postgres not surviving
machine restarts, right?

Nik