Re: should we enable log_checkpoints out of the box?

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 8:55 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think shipping with log_checkpoints=on and
> log_autovacuum_min_duration=10m or so would be one of the best things
> we could possibly do to allow ex-post-facto troubleshooting of
> system-wide performance issues. The idea that users care more about
> the inconvenience of a handful of extra log messages than they do
> about being able to find problems when they have them matches no part
> of my experience. I suspect that many users would be willing to incur
> *way more* useless log messages than those settings would ever
> generate if it meant that they could actually find problems when and
> if they have them.

I fully agree.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan