[Fwd: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 8.3 archive_command]

Small patch to reduce archive messages to DEBUG1 attached.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Rudolf van der Leeden
<vanderleeden@logicunited.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 8.3 archive_command
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:27:46 +0000

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 12:24 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> > Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Just to clarify: I don't object to lowering "successfully archived"
> >> messages to DEBUG1, if the field consensus is that it's too chatty.
> >> What I didn't like was the idea of logging some events but not other
> >> identical events.
>
> > Agreed on the intermittent logging.  I don't feel it's too chatty,
> > but on the other hand, I could always change the logging level on
> > the fly if I was investigating a problem, so it wouldn't be much of
> > an inconvenience to switch it if it bugs others.
>
> Also, you can always tweak your archive_command script to do some
> logging of its own, so it's always possible to make the thing more
> noisy if you need to.  Less noisy, though, is hard without changing
> the server code.

OK, both of those thoughts are good, so happy now with DEBUG1 for
success messages: "archived transaction log file..."

Enclosed patch to set archived message to DEBUG1.

I've got a few other comments for PITR docs, so I'll mention this also
in forthcoming patch.

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  Simon Riggs
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