On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> wrote:
> >> Patch attached. (Still using %t, I don't think %m makes sense for the
> >> default.)
>
> > What is the cost of using %m, other than 4 (rather compressible) bytes
> per
> > log entry?
>
> More log I/O, which is not free ... and that remark about compressibility
> is bogus for anyone who doesn't pipe their postmaster stderr into gzip.
> I'm already afraid that adding the timestamps will get us some pushback
> about log volume.
>

I don't pipe them into gzip, but every few months I go and pxz any of them
more than few months old.

Do you think the pushback will come from people who just accept the
defaults?

Cheers,

Jeff

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