On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 18:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Looking at the code, I notice that the messages are all emitted at level
> >> NOTICE. Perhaps that was not such a good idea --- it'd be pretty much
> >> in-your-face if it were on all the time. Does anyone think it'd be a
> >> good idea to emit the trace_sort messages at level LOG, instead?
>
> > If someone sets trace_sort, does it matter what level its emit'd at?
>
> Well, yeah. It depends whether you are thinking of the trace feature as
> being used interactively, or as something turned on to gather data over
> time in a production installation. In the second case you'd want the
> info to go to the postmaster log, but not want to see it dumped on your
> terminal all the time ...
Yes, please set this at LOG.
It will certainly provide many more data points for us to analyse.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs