Hi, On 2018-11-30 19:53:18 +0100, David Fetter wrote: > This makes it much simpler for computers to use the logs while not > making it excessively difficult for humans to use them.
While perhaps not excessively so, I think it increases the difficulty sufficiently that I'm against such a proposal. Yes, a conversion into something more readable can be done programatically, but that's another step before analyzing a problem. And besides, a lot of log fragments are embedded in email, screenshotted etc. Secondarily, csvlog doesn't contain all the interesting information. Thirdly, it often increases the log volume noticably. I think having a bin/pg_logparse tool that can parse postgres' config file and attempt to parse the log contents in whatever format they are would be much much more useful. Obviously not every log_line_prefix can be parsed unambiguously, but a lot of formats can, and a lot more formats can be made unambiguous (e.g. adding escape logic to application name logging would be very useful). - Andres
